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 3.14.22
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.22:
啶曕啶粪ぞ啶炧啶氞た啶溹啶溹ぞ啶むた啶椸啶｀く啷嬥ぐ啷囙啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶膏ぎ啶掂啶むく啷嬥 啷�
啶掂啶む啶むた啶� 啶曕啶粪啶｀い啶苦げ啷囙し啷嵿さ啶苦し啷嵿啶� 啶多が啷嵿う啷� 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶距き啶苦ぇ啶距く啶苦え啶� 啷� 啷ㄠエ 啷�办别峁Ｄ伱眂颈箩箩腻迟颈驳耻峁嘺测辞谤别办腻谤迟丑补蝉补尘补惫别迟补测辞岣� |
v峁泃ti岣� 办峁涐梗峁嘺tile峁i峁ａ弓膩 艣abde dravy膩bhidh膩yini || 22 ||22. According to some who hold that the word conveys substance (individual), the universal and the quality, inhering in the same thing, are found in an integrated manner in the sesame seeds.
Commentary
The appositional relation between meanings is now explained differently.
[Read verse 22 above]
[It can be shown in another way that the appositional relation is between meanings. The two words 办峁涐梗峁嘺 and tila unite to form one word and to convey one meaning. This is possible only if the two meanings, conveyed by the two words, stand towards each other in the relation of 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 and 惫颈艣别峁补. That does exist here, because the universal and quality co-exist in the same substance. That very thing, characterised by the universal denoted by the word tila and requiring completion, is further characterised by the word 办峁涐梗峁嘺. The quality conveyed by it is the 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺. The word 办峁涐梗峁嘺 conveys more than quality. It conveys the substance also through quality. If it conveyed quality only, there would be no compound out of these two words. We would get the expression tilasya 办峁涐梗峁嘺岣� and no compound would be possible. No compound can be formed with a word which denotes pure quality. Previously, the 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 惫颈艣别峁补-产丑腻惫补 relation was explained according to the view that a word denotes substance. The same thing is now explained according to the view that the word denotes the universal. The two words 办峁涐梗峁嘺 and tila do not convey quality and universal without a substratum. Nor can they stand towards each other in the relation of 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 and 惫颈艣别峁补. Their main purpose is to delimit the substance in which they inhere. They do not directly enter into relation with each other. It is only through the substance in which they inhere that they become related by the 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺惫颈艣别峁补产丑腻惫补 relation.]
It is now stated that where substance is not expressed, but only quality is expressed, there, even though the substance is implied, there is no relation of 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 and 惫颈艣别峁补, there cannot be a compound of words in apposition.