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 3.14.611
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.611:
啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶ぞ啶� 啶膏ぎ啶掂啶むぞ啶ぞ啶� 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶多が啷嵿う啷嬥そ啶掂い啶苦し啷嵿啶む 啷�
啶ぞ啶むぞ啶椸ぎ啶ㄠく啷嬥 啶曕ぞ啶曕い啶距げ啶多が啷嵿う啷� 啶むぅ啶� 啶膏啶ムた啶む 啷� 啷ェ啷� 啷�kriy膩y膩峁� samavet膩y膩峁� dravya艣abdo'vati峁ａ弓hate |
p膩t膩gamanayo岣� 办腻办补迟腻濒补艣abdau tath膩 sthitau || 611 ||611. The word expressive of substance denotes the action which inheres in it. The words 办腻办补 and 迟腻濒补 stand for the actions of coming and falling.
Commentary
[The arrival of the crow is the standard of comparison for the arrival of Caitra, not mentioned in the compound. Similarly, the falling of the 迟腻濒补 tree is the standard for the coming of the bandit which is also not mentioned in the compound. In other words 办腻办补 and 迟腻濒腻 are not connected with each other at all. How can they then give rise to a compound meaning and if they cannot, no compound meaning can qualify the meaning of the suffix cha. The answer is that 办腻办补 means an action, the coming of the crow. Similarly, 迟腻濒补 means the falling of the 迟腻濒补 tree. As these two words do not stand for two substances only but for two actions there can be connection between the two. The connection is that the two actions can be standards of comparison to each other, the common property being unexpectedness. Once they are connected, they can qualify the meaning of the suffix cha. The two words can be compounded to express the 耻辫补尘腻苍辞辫补尘别测补产丑腻惫补 between these two actions, and the other two actions, namely, the arrival of Devadatta and the coming of the bandit. The suffix expresses the same relation between the killing of the crow and that of Devadatta.]