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 3.14.349
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.349:
啶呧じ啷嵿く啷囙う啶た啶むた 啶掂ぞ 啶い啷嵿ぐ 啶膏啶洁く啶た啶む啶お啶� 啶掂ぞ 啶多啶班啶むた啶� 啷�
啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啶ぐ啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷囙ぃ 啶むう啶ㄠ啶う啶た啶о啶い啷� 啷� 啷┼オ啷� 啷�asyedamiti v膩 yatra so'yamityapi v膩 艣ruti岣� |
vartate paradharme峁嘺 tadanyadabhidh墨yate || 349 ||349. When a word denotes something either through the relation of possession or through identification, on the basis of the property of another, that is said to be the expressed meaning.
Commentary
[Words expressive of quality denote that which has quality either through the elision of the matup suffix or through identification. Words expressive of the universal denote the substratum of the universal through identification. There is no need to bring in any matup-elision here because the universal is never perceived apart from the individual.]