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 3.14.390
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.390:
啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ啶む啶掂 啶曕ぐ啶｀い啷嵿さ啶� 啶� 啶啶︵啶ㄠ啶掂ぞ啶多啶班た啶む 啶い啶� 啷�
啶呧い啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む啶曕い啷嵿さ啶掂た啶粪く啶距え啷嵿え 啶膏啶ぞ啶む 啶む啶ㄠぞ啶む啶� 啶膏啶多く啶� 啷� 啷┼ク啷� 啷�karmatva峁� kara峁嘺tva峁� ca bhedenaiv膩艣rita峁� yata岣� |
atyantaikatvavi峁y膩nna sy膩t ten膩tra sa峁兣沘ya岣� || 390 ||390. Inasmuch as the quality of being 碍补谤补峁嘺 (instrument) and that of being object (karma) are taken as being different from each other, there cannot be any doubt here based on their identity.
Commentary
Considering that in the word 耻辫补尘腻苍补, the suffix 濒测耻峁� has been added in the sense of 碍补谤补峁嘺 and in the word upameya, the suffix yat has been added in the sense of Karma, their difference is very obvious. How can the question of their identity arise?
[Read verse 390 above]
[As the two words are formed with suffixes having different meanings, there cannot be complete identity between them. That is admitted. But there is nothing to prevent a doubt regarding identity arising on the basis of a common attribute of two admittedly different things.]
An illustration is now given.