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 3.14.558
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.558:
啶呧ぐ啶距啷嵿啶� 啶啶粪ぞ啶� 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啶距ぃ啶距 啶︵啶粪啶熰啶洁い啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶むぎ啶膏ぎ啷嵿き啶掂 啷�
啶む 啶班ぞ啶溹え啶� 啶ㄠた啶ぎ啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む 啶む啶啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む 啶掂啶き啶苦啶距ぐ啶苦ぃ啶� 啷� 啷カ啷� 啷�ar膩j帽i ye峁Ｄ佱箖 dharm膩峁嚹佱箖 d峁涐梗峁璷'tyantamasambhava岣� |
te r膩jani niyamyante tyajyante vyabhic膩ri峁嚹� || 558 ||558. Those qualities which are absolutely impossible in one who is not a king, they arc restricted to a king. Those which deviate are abandoned.
Commentary
The exact scope of P. 5.1.117 is now stated.
[Read verse 558 above]
[When it is intended to emphasise those qualities which arc found in a king only, then the suffix vati is used for the purpose of restriction. Restriction usually implies exclusion of others. There is a two-way restriction: (1) the conduct befits a king only. (2) only the conduct befits a king. The 叠丑腻峁补 further means that the agent of the act of deserving is an action, a mode of behaviour, a conduct. When such an agent is meant to be different from other agents then the suffix vati is added by this rule. That action or conduct befits the meaning of the word ending in the second case-affix. In r膩javad r奴pam = 鈥榖eauty like that of a king鈥� r膩javad dhairyam = 鈥榗ourage like that of a king,鈥� the, suffix vati comes by the previous rule. It cannot come by his rule because this teaches vati when the agent of deserv-ing is an action. So the conclusion is this: Where the difference is meant, the suffix comes by the previous rule. Where no difference is meant, no comparison is involved and the effect aimed at is restriction, the suffix comes by P. 5.1.117.]