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 3.14.599
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.599:
啶ぅ啶� 啶椸啶∴い啶苦げ啶距う啷�啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶啶班く啷嬥啶距う啷囙啶膏啶栢啶い啶� 啷�
啶ぞ啶曕ぞ啶︵啶班お啷嵿ぐ啶啶椸 啶む 啶た啶ㄠ啶ㄠじ啶傕啷嵿く啶距き啶苦ぇ啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷ク啷� 啷�yath膩 gu岣峚til膩d墨n膩峁� prayog膩dekasa峁僰hyat膩 |
p膩k膩deraprayoge tu bhinnasa峁僰hy膩bhidh墨yate || 599 ||599. It is like the use of the singular number when the things to be cooked are mentioned and the use of the dual and the plural numbers when they are not mentioned.
Commentary
[An illustration is now given. 骋耻岣峚-tila-ta峁囜笉ul膩n膩峁� 辫腻办补岣� = the cooking of jaggery, sesame and rice, 迟腻尘谤补岣� pal膩艣e峁 babh奴va 谤腻驳补岣� = the colour of the 辫补濒腻艣补 leaves became red. In such sentences, even though because of the plurality of the things to be cooked, the cooking is also understood as being more than one, the word 辫腻办补 is put in the singular number. When words indicative of the plurality of the things to be cooked or of the substrata of the red colour are not used and only the word 辫腻办补 or 谤腻驳补 is used, a doubt arises as to whether the cooking relates to one thing only or to many and whether the colour has only one substratum or more than one. In order to resolve the doubt, one has to use the dual or the plural case endings.]