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 3.14.451
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.451:
啶呧き啶距さ啶距い啷� 啶曕啶掂げ啶距く啶距じ啷嵿い啷� 啶むう啷嵿さ啶距え啶班啶ム 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶啶班ぇ啶距え啶距じ啶啶さ啷� 啶啶曕啶むぞ 啶侧啷嵿し啶｀ぞ啶班啶ムぞ 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶多啶班啶むた啶� 啷� 啷カ啷� 啷�abh膩v膩t keval膩y膩stu tadv膩nartha岣� prat墨yate |
pradh膩n膩sambhave yukt膩 lak峁峁嚹乺th膩 办谤颈测腻艣ruti岣� || 451 ||451. As pure action does not exist, that which has action is understood. If the main meaning is not applicable, the word 办谤颈测腻 would denote its secondary meaning.
Commentary
[When, in interpreting P. 5.1.115, the word 办谤颈测腻 is connected with tena which comes first and is thus taken as a qualifier of the stem, then, as has been pointed out it becomes the substratum of the common property and loses its original nature and ceases to be pure action. Thus the word ending in the third case-affix would denote substance qualified by action, because the former is the substratum of the latter and they are always found together. In this way, a word like 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, standing only for a part of its meaning, would denote action and become the stem for the suffix vati. The same reasoning applies to words like 艣补测颈迟补惫测补.]