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 3.14.594
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.594:
啶夃お啶啶啶粪 啶た啶ㄠ啶ㄠ啶粪 啶曕た啶炧啶氞た啶︵啶曕 啶啶班さ啶班啶むい啷� 啷�
啶啶班い啷嵿く啶じ啷嵿く 啶掂た啶о 啶むい啷嵿ぐ 啶ㄠた啶む啶 啶啶曕啶むさ啶︵た啶粪啶い啷� 啷� 啷ク啷� 啷�upameye峁 bhinne峁 ki帽cideka峁� pravartate |
pratyayasya vidhau tatra nitya峁� yuktavadi峁ate || 594 ||594. When the objects of comparison are many and one standard of comparison serves them all, then always the gender and number of the stem prevail.
Commentary
[When P. 1.2.51 extends both the gender and number of the stem to the word where lup has taken place, how can gender alone be extended here? The position is this: when there are many images all of which are objects of comparison, there are two possibilities: either one standard of comparison serves all of them or there is a separate standard of comparison for each. If there is only one standard of comparison and the images are many, then P. 1.2.51, operates.]