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 3.7.120
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.120:
啶掂た啶ぐ啷�啶むぞ啶班啶ムさ啷冟い啷嵿い啶苦い啷嵿さ啶� 啶啶班啶粪じ啷嵿く 啶掂た啶ぐ啷嵿く啶 啷�
啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啷囙い 啶膏ぞ啶оえ啶� 啶灌啶い啷嵿ぐ 啶膏さ啷嵿く啶距お啶距ぐ啶� 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷оエ啷� 啷�vipar墨t膩rthav峁泃titva峁� puru峁sya viparyaye |
gamyeta s膩dhana峁� hyatra savy膩p膩ra峁� prat墨yate || 120 ||120. If the person is interchanged, it would convey the opposite meaning, because the accessory would be understood as active (and another modification would have to be postulated as having the fruit).
Commentary
Why one does not say 鈥�补迟惫补峁� tva峁� sampadyase tvadbhavasi鈥� is now explained.
[Read verse 120 above]
[We do not say 鈥�补迟惫补峁� tva峁� sampadyase tvadbhavasi鈥�, because the meaning intended to be conveyed, namely that 鈥�atvam鈥� is the material and 鈥�tvam鈥� is the modification would not be understood. Instead, one would understand that 鈥�tva鈥� is the active material and one would think of some other modification of it.]
This point is now explained.