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 3.14.11
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.11:
啶むぞ啶掂啶掂 啶膏え啷嵿え啶苦お啶むた啶む 啶啶︵啶� 啶啶班い啶苦お啶距う啶ㄠ 啷�
啶呧さ啶氞啶涏啶︵ぎ啶苦さ啶距ぇ啶距く 啶膏啶多く啶� 啶掂啶お啶曕ぐ啷嵿し啶む 啷� 啷оェ 啷�t膩veva峁� sannipatitau bhedena pratip膩dane |
avacchedamiv膩dh膩ya sa峁兣沘ya峁� vyapakar峁ta岣� || 11 ||11. Thus the two words (at first incapable) of conveying the particular (ultimately) bring about differentiation and remove all doubt.
Commentary
[When the two words come together in the same sentence, they specify each other鈥檚 meaning and dispel the requirement and the sense of incompleteness which was felt before. The word 办峁涐梗峁嘺 now conveys the colour black but also the universal sesame-ness with which it co-exists and the word tila not only conveys the universal sesameness but also the colour black with which it coexists. In this way the meanings of the two words become related. Sec 惭.产丑腻 on P.2.1.57.]
The relation between the two words is 蝉腻尘腻苍腻诲丑颈办补谤补峁噛补 = the appositional relation. Something is now being said to elucidate it.