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 3.14.39
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.39:
啶啶︵ 啶膏い啶� 啶ㄠた啶班ぞ啶︵啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶曕啶班ぞ啶ㄠ啶むぞ啶︵啶ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷囙し啷嵿さ啶膏啶さ啶� 啷�
啶啶班ぞ啶椸啶掂啶む啶む啶班啶溹ぞ啶むた啶掂ぞ啶氞た啶む啶掂 啶� 啶� 啶椸啶班啶班ぞ啶︵た啶粪 啷� 啷┼ク 啷�bhede sati nir膩d墨n膩峁� kr膩nt膩dyarthe峁asa峁僢hava岣� |
pr膩gv峁泃terj膩tiv膩citva峁� na ca gaurakhar膩di峁 || 39 ||39. In a sentence 苍颈岣� etc. cannot express the idea of 鈥榞oing out鈥� etc. nor can the words gaura and khara etc. denote objects having a particular universal before they enter into a compound.
Commentary
[The compound 苍颈峁补耻艣腻尘产颈岣� means 鈥榦ne who has gone out of 办补耻艣腻尘产墨. It means that here 苍颈岣� means 鈥榦ne who has gone out鈥� (苍颈峁谤腻苍迟补岣�). But in a sentence it cannot do that. There one has to say 苍颈峁谤腻苍迟补岣� kau艣膩mby膩岣�. The words gaurakhara = 鈥榓 wild monkey鈥�, k峁涐梗峁嘺sarpa = 鈥榓 black cobra鈥� can denote these animals having a particular universal only as long as they are compounds and not when they are separate words in a sentence. 驳补耻谤补岣� 办丑补谤补岣� cannot mean gaurakhara.]