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 3.14.348
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.348:
啶むい啷嵿ぐ 啶溹ぞ啶むた啶う啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶む啶掂 啶むぅ啷堗さ啶距き啷嵿く啷佮お啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶溹ぞ啶むた啶班啶む啶膏啷嵿啷嵿く啶� 啶む 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶ㄠ啶え啷佮し啶溹啶い啷� 啷� 啷┼オ啷� 啷�tatra j膩tipad膩rthatva峁� tathaiv膩bhyupagamyate |
j膩tirutsa峁卥hy膩 tu dravy膩tmanyanu峁jyate || 348 ||348. That is why the word is said to be expressive of the universal. The universal, devoid of any gender, is superimposed on the substance.
Commentary
[In spite of what has been said before the accepted doctrine is that the word denotes the universal, because, even if the word brings the substance to the mind, it docs so as identical with the universal. It might be said that it would bring all the individuals as one to the mind. Considering that they arc all identified with one and the same universal and so diversity of number would not result and yet that is desired. The fact is that the universal with which the substance (individual) is identified has neither gender nor number and, therefore, the gender and number of the substrata, that is, the individuals would result.]