Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 3.9.104
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.104:
啶囙啷嵿啶� 啶氞た啶曕啶班啶粪い啷�啶む啶い啷嵿ぐ 啶膏啶掂啶距げ啶え啷佮ぐ啷佮ぇ啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶さ啶苦し啷嵿く啶むた 啶啶班啷冟い啷嵿く啶班啶ム 啶むい啷嵿啶距げ啶� 啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠ啶班啶о啶い啷� 啷� 啷оウ啷� 啷�icch膩 cik墨r峁t墨tyatra svak膩lamanurudhyate |
bhavi峁ati prak峁泃yarthe tatk膩la峁� n膩nurudhyate || 104 ||104. In the word 肠颈办墨谤峁迟颈, 鈥榙esire鈥� follows its own time. Even though the meaning of the base relates to the future, desire is not expressed by the future tense.
Commentary
[The desire expressed by the suffix san in 肠颈办墨谤峁迟颈 is in the present though its object, namely, the act of doing is in the future. The word is in the present tense because san is the more important element in the word and desire is expressed by san.]