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 3.14.235
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.235:
啶啶班ぇ啶距え啶え啷嵿く啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶むく啶� 啶た啶ㄠ啶ㄠ 啶膏啶掂啶班啶じ啶班啶溹え啷堗 啷�
啶ㄠた啶た啶む啶むぎ啶た啶о啶 啶掂ぞ 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶ざ啷嵿啶距う啶啶曕啶粪啶い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠォ啷� 啷�pradh膩namany膩rthatay膩 bhinna峁� svairupasarjanai岣� |
nimittamabhidheya峁� v膩 sarvapa艣c膩dapek峁ate || 235 ||235. The relation, determined by the relata which are subordinate to it, is an occasion for its formation and is important because it is the meaning of the other word. Or it may he looked upon as the expressed meaning as it is referred to right at the end.
Commentary
[The 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 is formed in the sense of another word which is not its constituent. The relation is only an occasion for its formation. Once it is formed, it expresses the related. This is the first view. The other view is that the relation is the main thing and that the compound expresses that. The relation is determined by the relata conveyed by the constituent words. It is that which is referred to at the end of the analytic sentence. See, M. Bh膩. I. p. 422, 1. 9.]
An objection is now anticipated and answered.