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 3.7.72
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.72:
啶︵啶灌啶ぞ啶︵た啶掂え啷嵿え啶い啷嵿く啶距う啷� 啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ啶む啶掂ぎ啶曕ぅ啶距ざ啷嵿ぐ啶ぎ啷� 啷�
啶嗋啷嵿く啶距い啶距え啷佮お啶啶椸 啶む 啶ㄠた啶ぎ啶距啷嵿啷囙さ 啶囙し啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷エ 啷�duhy膩divannayaty膩dau karmatvamakath膩艣rayam |
腻办丑测腻迟腻nupayoge tu niyam膩ccheva i峁ate || 72 ||72. As (the cow etc.) in the case of roots duh, etc. (village etc.) in the case of roots 鈥�苍墨鈥� etc. they become objects because no other name has been taught for them. As for one who expounds (腻办丑测腻迟腻), where there is no acquisition of knowledge in the prescribed manner (upayoga), he would come under the rest (艣别峁) because of the restriction due to the specification of roots.
Commentary
The author now says something about the objects of the roots 鈥樷垰苍墨鈥� and 鈥�鈭歷补丑鈥�.
[Read verse 72 above]
[As the cow in the case of roots like duh, in the case of roots like 鈥�苍墨鈥� etc. also, the destination is an object by P. 1.4.51. A 惫腻谤迟迟颈办补 under this 蝉奴迟谤补 enumerates the roots where this takes place. That is why in na峁璦sya 艣峁沶oti = 鈥榟e listens to the actor鈥�, the actor does not become the object. The actor would become 补辫腻诲腻苍补 if there was upayoga, that is, acquisition of knowledge in the prescribed manner. Where this does not exist, the actor should really become an object according to P. 1.4.51, but does not do so because the roots have been specified and 艣谤耻 = 鈥榯o hear鈥� is not one of them.]
It is now stated that, according to some, the object is the main one in the case of these enumerated roots also.