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 3.14.166
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.166:
啶嗋ざ啷嵿ぐ啶 啶膏ぎ啶掂ぞ啶 啶� 啶ㄠた啶た啶む啶む 啶侧た啶權啶椸じ啶傕啷嵿く啶啶� 啷�
啶曕ぐ啷嵿い啷冟じ啷嵿ぅ啶ぞ啶掂啶� 啶多啶むた啶班い啷� 啶ぞ啶粪啶� 啶夃う啶距す啷冟い啶� 啷� 啷оガ啷� 啷�膩艣raya岣� samav膩y墨 ca nimitta峁� li峁単asa峁僰hyayo岣� |
办补谤迟峁泂迟丑补产丑腻惫补办补岣� 艣etirato bh膩峁a ud膩h峁泃a岣� || 166 ||166. The substratum, in which action inheres determines the gender and number. Therefore the 叠丑腻峁补 has declared that the root 鈭�艣墨 is 办补谤迟峁泂迟丑补产丑腻惫补办补 = 鈥榯he result of whose action is found in the agent鈥�.
Commentary
[If the meaning of the suffix (tarap) is taken to be action, then, as both agent and object (办补谤迟腻 and karma) are the substrata of an action the word 艣耻办濒补迟补谤补 should take the dual suffix. Though normally intransitive, the root 鈭�艣墨 becomes transitive (sakarmaka) when united with a preposition and so it has an object too, not merely an agent. But this is not the right view. The root 鈭�艣墨 is really intransitive here because transitive verbs are either 办补谤尘补蝉迟丑补产丑腻惫补办补 like 鈭�pac or karmasthakriya like 鈭�bhid but 艣墨 is kar峁璻sthabh膩vaka. The meaning of 艣墨 here is to surpass and it inheres in the agent which is its substratum which is only one. So there will be only the singular number. It does not inhere in the object.]