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 3.14.16
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.16:
啶掂啶お啶︵啶多た啶掂う啷囙啶膏啶た啶ㄠ 啶啶︵啶оく啶� 啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠぞ啶班啶ム啶侧啶え啶� 啷�
啶むく啶� 啶曕げ啷嵿お啶苦い啶啶︵ 啶膏え啷嵿え啶班啶ムぞ啶む啶ぞ 啶掂啶お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷� 啷оガ 啷�vyapade艣ivadekasmin buddhay膩 n膩n膩rthakalpan膩 |
tay膩 kalpitabheda岣� sannarth膩tm膩 vyapadi艣yate || 16 ||16. Even if there is only a part of a thing, to look upon it as fulfilling the condition (vyapade艣ivad ekasmin), to look upon one thing as many through the intellect, in this way, a thing can be spoken of through fictional divisions.
Commentary
碍腻迟测腻测补苍补 is also of the opinion that it is the intellect which presents things as one or as many.
[Read verse 16 above]
[While explaining the 蝉奴迟谤补: 腻诲测补苍迟补惫补诲别办补蝉尘颈苍 (P. 1.1.21.) = a grammatical operation taught in regard to the initial or the final phoneme of something will be applied even if it consists of one phoneme only, 碍腻迟测腻测补苍补 suggests that the 蝉奴迟谤补 should be worded as vyapade艣ivad ekasmin = One should treat a single (phoneme) as though it fulfilled the condition prescribed (namely, that it should be the initial or final.) To look upon an isolated phoneme which has nothing before it and nothing after it is an act of the intellect but that is often done in the Science of Grammar. For example, P. 6.1.1. teaches the reduplication of the first syllable (prathama 别办腻肠) of a root. A group of sounds containing one vowel is 别办腻肠. If, in a unit, there is only a vowel and no other sound, that is also looked upon as 别办腻肠 and its reduplication would take place when the 濒颈峁� suffix follows.)