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 3.14.297
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.297:
啶多啶ぞ啶啶� 啶多じ啷嵿い啷嵿ぐ啷� 啶曕え啷嵿く啷囙い啶� 啶ぅ啶距え啷嵿く啶︵ 啶掂啶お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷�
啶呧じ啶ㄠ 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ 啶囙い啷嵿く啶距き啷嵿く啶距 啶むぅ啶距え啷嵿く啶� 啶曕啶粪い啷嵿ぐ啶苦く啶距う啶 啷� 啷ㄠク啷� 啷�艣y膩meva 艣astr墨 kanyeti yath膩nyad vyapadi艣yate |
asan 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 ity膩bhy膩峁� tath膩nya峁� k峁triy膩daya岣� || 297 ||297. Just as in 艣astr墨va 艣y膩m膩 办补苍测腻 = 鈥榯he girl is dark like a dagger鈥�, something external is referred to, in the same way, the two words asan and 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 convey outside objects like a 办峁迟迟谤颈测补.
Commentary
To show that even if the meaning of the outside word is predominant in a negative compound, it is not a 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 but a 迟补迟辫耻谤耻峁, an illustration is given.
[Read verse 297 above]
Remark. Though all the manuscripts and the two previous editions have 艣y膩meva 艣astr墨 kanyeti, the correct reading should perhaps be 艣astr墨va 艣y膩m膩 kanyeti in the first 辫腻诲补 of this stanza.
[According to the view that it is the second constituent which is the predominant one, the meaning of the compound rests within the compound itself. But it may be looked upon as being similar to the compound 艣补蝉迟谤墨蝉测腻尘腻 = 鈥榙ark like a dagger鈥�. This compound refers to something outside itself like 办补苍测腻 = girl. In that sense, though it is a 迟补迟辫耻谤耻峁, it has been formed in the sense of something external. A产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 is in the same position.]