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 3.14.172
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.172:
啶啶むぞ啶︵く啶� 啶粪ぁ啶距啷嵿く啶距ざ啷嵿 啶膏啶膏啶む啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶ㄠ啶げ啶曕啶粪た啶む 啷�
啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啷嵿く啶距う啷� 啶う啶� 啶掂啶む啶むぞ啶膏啶む啶啶 啶膏啶啶� 啶啶班い啷嵿く啶ぞ啶膏啶むう啶� 啷� 啷оキ啷� 啷�bh奴t膩daya岣� 峁岣嵞乲hy膩艣ca sa峁僺ty膩nenopalak峁te |
br膩hma峁噛膩dau yad膩 v峁泃t膩stebhya岣� syu岣� pratyay膩stad膩 || 172 ||172. When the word 产丑奴迟补 etc. and the numerals called 峁峁� are in apposition to a word like 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹� which includes femininity (蝉迟谤墨迟惫补) they would take the feminine suffix at the end.
Commentary
[According to this view (that is, the 蝉迟谤墨蝉补尘腻苍腻诲丑颈办补谤补峁嘺辫补办峁) when we have the expression 办耻尘腻谤补岣� 蝉迟谤墨 where 办耻尘腻谤补岣� is in apposition to 蝉迟谤墨, the feminine suffix would come after 办耻尘腻谤补 and we would get 办耻尘腻谤墨. But in 产丑奴迟补m 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹�, the word 产丑奴迟补 is in apposition to the 蝉迟谤墨 which is in 产谤腻丑尘补峁嚹� and so it would become 产丑奴迟补 which is wrong in this particular sense. Similarly in 峁岣� 产谤腻丑尘补峁噛补岣�, 峁岣� is in apposition to 产谤腻丑尘补峁噛补岣� which expresses 蝉迟谤墨迟惫补 and so it would get the feminine suffix which is wrong.]