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 2.12
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.12:
啶ぞ啶椸啶班え啶班啶ム啷堗ぐ啷嵿く啷佮啷嵿い啶� 啶掂啶粪き啷嬥う啶曕く啶距さ啶曕ぞ啶� 啷�
啶呧え啷嵿さ啶さ啷嵿く啶むた啶班啶曕 啶む 啶掂啶さ啶灌ぞ啶班え啶苦が啶ㄠ啶оえ啶 啷� 啷оエ 啷�bh膩gairanarthakairyukt膩 v峁涐梗abhodakay膩vak膩岣� |
anvayavyatirekau tu vyavah膩ranibandhanam || 12 ||12. The words 痴峁涐梗补产丑补, Udaka and 驰腻惫补办补 have meaningless parts. Analysis through the method of agreement and difference is the basis of worldly usage.
Commentary
[Everywhere the parts which we artificially make in a word are meaningless. If we make these parts and attribute meanings to them, it is only in an artificial sense. Words like 痴峁涐梗补产丑补, Udaka, 驰腻惫补办补 contain meaningless parts in the form of 峁氠梗补产丑补, Uda and 驰腻惫补 respectively. Similarly, words like pacati, 辫腻肠补办补 have meaningless parts in the form of stem, suffix etc. But the splitting of a word into stem and suffix and attributing meanings to them at least serve the purpose of teaching the formation of words to the ignorant. But the artificial parts 峁氠梗补产丑补, Uda and Yava in 痴峁涐梗补产丑补, Udaka and 驰腻惫补办补 do not serve any such purpose.]