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 3.14.506
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.506:
啶啶班啷冟い啷嵿く啶班啶ム 啶掂た啶多た啶粪啶熰啶洁お啶� 啶啶班い啷嵿く啶ぞ啶班啶ムぞ啶掂た啶多啶粪ぃ啶距い啷� 啷�
啶啶む啶班啶� 啶む啶侧啶 啶曕お啶苦げ 啶囙い啶� 啶掂啶む啶むた啶� 啶啶班じ啶溹啶い啷� 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�prak峁泃yarthe vi艣i峁ａ弓e'pi pratyay膩rth膩vi艣e峁峁嚹乼 |
putre峁嘺 tulya岣� kapila iti 惫峁泃迟颈岣� prasajyate || 506 ||506. Even if the meaning of the stem is qualified (by the word 办谤颈测腻), that of the suffix is not and so
a complex formation (惫峁泃迟颈) by the addition of the suffix vati would become possible in the sense of putre峁嘺 tulya岣� kapila岣�.
Commentary
[Another difficulty in the 辫谤补办峁泃测补谤迟丑补惫颈艣别峁峁嘺辫补办峁, pointed out in the M. Bh膩. II, p. 63, 1.21, namely that the suffix vati could be added to a word in the third case-ending expressive of action in the sense of resemblance in some quality, is now explained. As the word 办谤颈测腻 is mentioned only once in the 蝉奴迟谤补, after qualifying the stem, it becomes exhausted, and does not qualify the meaning of the suffix and so the suffix could be added to a word ending in the third case-affix when there is resemblance in respect of some quality. One would say putravat kapila岣� in the sense of putre峁嘺 tulya岣� kapila岣�. But this is not desired.]
But how is the word putra an action-word?