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 3.14.295
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.295:
啶膏啶ㄠ啶灌ぞ啶ㄠ啶むぐ啶距う啶掂啷嵿啷囙う啶� 啶じ啷嵿い啶ムぞ啶膏い啷嵿い啷囙 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶む啶侧啶� 啶啶溹え啷� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶む 啶� 啶む啶掂え啷嵿く啶︵啶じ啷囙啶ㄠぎ啷� 啷� 啷ㄠク啷� 啷�sneh膩ntar膩davacched膩 yastath膩satte岣� prat墨yate |
tailena bhojane pr膩pte na tvanyadupasecanam || 295 ||295. When eating with oil is a possibility, its prohibition results in the determination (avaccheda) of the meal by some other fat, because that would be the nearest and not by some other wet substance (like curds or milk).
Commentary
[When somebody says: 鈥榟ave your meal with something else than oil鈥� (bhojanamataila峁� vidheyam), one would naturally think of something of a similar nature like clarified butter but not of curds or milk. Similarly when the number one is negated, one would think of something similar, that is, of another number.]
The predominance of the meaning of the outside word in a negative compound is now referred to.