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 3.14.187
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.187:
啶膏ぞ啶曕ぞ啶權啶曕啶粪い啷嵿さ啶距う啷� 啶椸啶｀い啷嵿さ啷囙え 啶膏ぞ啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶 啶掂啶う啶苦ざ啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶掂啶啷嵿い啷�啶ㄠぞ啶ぞ啶む啶ぇ啶班啶啶洁じ啶距さ啷囙啶啶班啷嵿く啶距え啶苦が啶ㄠ啶оえ啶� 啷� 啷оギ啷� 啷�s膩k膩峁卥峁tv膩d 驳耻峁嘺tvena 蝉腻尘腻苍测补峁� vopadi艣yate |
惫测补办迟墨苍腻尘腻迟尘补诲丑补谤尘辞'蝉腻惫别办补辫谤补办丑测腻苍颈产补苍诲丑补苍补岣� || 187 ||187. Or one might understand that substance in general, being dependent on something else, is taught as a quality. It is a characteristic of the individuals, the basis of the cognition of their identity.
Commentary
[Substance in general having femininity is conveyed by the suffix and that is what is meant by 惫颈艣别峁峁嘺 in P. 1.2. 52. As it requires and is dependent upon the particular or individual substance conveyed by the stem, it has become a 驳耻峁嘺, something dependent on something else. The general and the particular, denoted by the suffix and the stem respectively, are really one. What is called 蝉腻尘腻苍测补 is that characteristic of the individual which causes the cognition of their identity.]
As the individual qualified by femininity is one, how can the two be looked upon as standing in the relation of the substratum and what exists on it? This is now explained.