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 3.14.347
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.347:
啶啷嵿啶多が啷嵿う啷� 啶ぅ啶距そ啶洁ぇ啷囙く啶� 啶啷嵿啷囙し啷嵿さ啷囙さ 啶掂啶さ啶膏啶ムた啶む 啷�
啶むい啷嵿い啷嵿さ啷囙え啶距す 啶むぅ啶� 啶溹ぞ啶むた啶多が啷嵿う啷� 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啷囙し啷� 啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷� 啷┼オ啷� 啷�尘补帽肠补艣abdo yath膩''dheya峁� ma帽ce峁eva vyavasthita岣� |
tattven膩ha tath膩 j膩ti艣abdo dravye峁 vartate || 347 ||347. Just as the word cradle (尘补帽肠补) while continuing to denote that object, expresses by identification what is on it, so does a word expressive of the universal, denote the substance (individuals).
Commentary
[In the expression 尘补帽肠腻岣� 办谤辞艣补苍迟颈 = 鈥榯he cradles are crying鈥�, one understands by cradles the children on them, and connects the action of crying with them. In the same way on hearing the sentence 鈥榖ring the cows,鈥� one brings individual cows as the universal cow cannot be brought by itself.]