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 2.59
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.59:
啶う啶距ぎ啷嵿え啶距く啶多啶� 啶う啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶 啶膏啶灌た啶むぞ啶ぞ 啶ㄠた啶︵ぐ啷嵿ざ啶曕 啷�
啶ㄠた啶む啶じ啷嵿い啶む啶� 啶曕ぅ啶� 啶曕ぞ啶班啶 啶う啶� 啶侧啷嵿し啶｀う啶班啶多え啶距い啷� 啷� 啷ク 啷�pad膩mn膩ya艣ca yadyanya岣� sa峁僪it膩y膩 nidar艣aka岣� |
nityastatra katha峁� k膩rya峁� pada峁� lak峁峁嘺dar艣an膩t || 59 ||59. If the other tradition, namely, that of the separated words (辫补诲补辫腻峁环补) shows the way to the connected text and is eternal, how is the separated text to be constituted according to the rules?
Commentary
A statement of Patanjali is now explained.
The very fact that Patanjali says that the authors of the 辫补诲补辫腻峁环补 have to follow the rules in doing their work shows that, according to him, that text is man-made. His words are: na lak峁峁噀na padak膩r膩 anuvarty膩岣�; padak膩rair 苍腻尘补 lak峁峁嘺m anuvartyam=鈥渁re not to be framed according to the text made by the authors of the 辫补诲补辫腻峁环补; it is the latter who have to follow the rules.鈥� In other words, 笔补迟补帽箩补濒颈 is in favour of the 补办丑补峁囜笉补辫补办峁. See M.Bh膩. II. p. 85,1. 4.5.
[Read verse 59 above]
[The 痴峁泃迟颈 points out that the word used in the world is eternal. It is for the rules to conform to the eternal word and not for the latter to conform to the rules: ata岣� 艣膩stre峁嘺 nityasya lak峁asy膩nuvidh膩na峁� kartavya, na tu nityena lak峁e峁嘺 艣膩stram anuvidheyam.]