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 3.14.118
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.118:
啶嗋お啶� 啶曕 啶氞ぞ啶ぐ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶む啶掂ぞ啶ㄠ啶ㄠぞ啶啶� 啶夃お啶溹ぞ啶い啷� 啷�
啶夃き啷� 啶囙い啶� 啶むい啶� 啶膏啶掂ぞ啶班啶ム 啶啶︵さ啷冟い啷嵿い啶苦 啶啶班く啷佮啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�腻辫i ke c腻辫ar膩rthatv膩nn膩bheda upaj膩yate |
ubhe iti tata岣� 蝉惫腻谤迟丑别 bhedav峁泃ti岣� prayujyate || 118 ||118. When 腻辫 or ka follows, there is no subordination to the meaning of another and so no identification takes place. Therefore the word ubha, with the suffix added in the meaning of the stem itself and resting on differentiation is used.
Commentary
[The word ubha is used only when 峁灞� and the suffix of the dual or the suffix ka are used. Seev膩. 8 and 9 on P. 1.1.27. The feminine suffix and ka are added to a stem in its own meaning (蝉惫腻谤迟丑别). So there is no question of the meaning of the stem becoming subordinate to that of the suffix and so abheda docs not come to be. In such a case, the word which stands for bheda can be used and we get the forms ubhe and ubhaka. When the suffix has its own meaning or when the primary word of the compound follows, the meaning of the secondary constituent becomes subordinate to that of the primary word, so ubha cannot be used. Ubhaya is used instead.]