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 3.7.73
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.73:
啶呧え啷嵿い啶班啶啶むぃ啶苦啶班啶ムぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶︵啶灌啶ぞ啶︵啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶｀た啶溹え啷嵿い啶掂い啷� 啷�
啶膏た啶︵啶о 啶啶班啶掂啶� 啶曕ぐ啷嵿ぎ啶む啶掂 啶｀た啶溹え啷嵿い啶� 啶ㄠた啶ぎ啶膏啶むぅ啶� 啷� 啷ォ 啷�antarbh奴ta峁噄jarth膩n膩峁� duhy膩d墨n膩峁� 峁噄jantavat |
siddha峁� p奴rve峁嘺 karmatva峁� 峁噄janta峁� niyamas迟补迟丑腻 || 73 ||73. In the case of roots like 鈥�鈭歞耻丑鈥� which involve the meaning of the causative affix, cow, etc. become objects by the first rule (P. 1.4.49) as in the case of roots ending in the causative affix. That is why there is restriction in regard to the roots ending in the causative affix.
Commentary
It is now stated that, according to some, the object is the main one in the case of these enumerated roots also.
[Read verse 73 above]
(The last part of the 办腻谤颈办腻 should be: 峁噄箩补苍迟补苍颈测补尘补蝉 迟补迟丑腻).
[Others think that the object taught under P. 1.4.51 can be looked upon as the main object, because the roots enumerated under that 蝉奴迟谤补 imply the idea of somebody causing somebody else to do something (辫谤补颈峁), that is, the meaning of 峁噄肠. Something becomes the karma of 峁噄肠 by P. 1.4.49. g膩峁� dogdhi paya岣� = 鈥渉e extracts milk off the cow鈥� would be explained as: K峁rant墨峁� g膩峁� k峁Ｄ乺ayati = 鈥榟e prompts the cow which drips (milk) to do so. Here, in reality, milk is more important than the cow, but linguistically, it is vice-versa, that is why in 鈥�gaur duhyate paya岣� = 鈥榯he cow is milked milk, the verb expresses the fact of the cow being the object and not that of the milk. Strictly speaking, the cow being the starting point of the milk, it should be 补辫腻诲腻苍补 and take the fifth case-affix, but it becomes the object because the latter is taught later. All the roots enumerated under P. 1.4.51 can be explained as involving the meaning of the causative affix. The restriction taught in P. 1.4.52 does not apply to these roots because that restriction applies only to roots ending in the causative affix and these roots are not so.]
It is now explained how the important and the unimportant can both become the object.