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 3.14.88
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.88:
啶掂た啶多啶粪ぃ啶距う啷� 啶掂た啶多啶粪啶啶洁ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶むう啷嵿き啶距さ啶距き啷嵿く啷佮啷嵿啶 啶膏い啶� 啷�
啶啶ㄠざ啷嵿 啶啶班い啶苦じ啶傕す啶距ぐ啷� 啶掂啶む啶むた啶啶曕 啶啶班啶曕啶粪い啷� 啷� 啷ギ 啷�vi艣e峁峁嚹乨 vi艣e峁e'rthe tadbh膩v膩bhyuccaye sati |
puna艣ca pratisa峁僪膩re 惫峁泃迟颈meke pracak峁te || 88 ||88. Some declare that integration of meaning (惫峁泃迟颈) takes place when after the (cognition of the) qualifier, it is added on to the qualified and then it disappears.
Commentary
The author now resumes consideration of the relation of the qualifier and the qualified in a 惫峁泃迟颈 (complex formation or integration of meaning.
[Read verse 88 above]
[To the objection that, as, in a 惫峁泃迟颈, there is integration of meaning, how can there be the relation of qualifier and qualified which presupposes difference, some give the following answer. If both the 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 and the 惫颈艣别峁补 are understood in one act of cognition, they cannot have anything to do with each other and so there cannot be the relation of qualifier and qualified. But they cannot be grasped in one verbal cognition because the two words came in a sequence and so the two meanings also must be understood in a sequence. So the qualifier is understood first and it is added to the qualified which is grasped next. After that, when the two are unified, the qualifier as such does not exist. After qualifying the 惫颈艣别峁补, it disappears. So all that remains is the qualified 惫颈艣别峁补 and that is understood from the compound.]