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 3.14.298
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.298:
啶呧じ啶距じ啷嵿え啷� 啶椸啶班た啶むた 啶ぅ啶� 啶椸さ啶 啶掂啶お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷�
啶溹ぞ啶む啶え啷嵿い啶班 啶� 啶椸啶班啶� 啶膏ぞ啶膏啶ㄠぞ啶洁き啶距さ啶� 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠク啷� 啷�as膩sno gauriti yath膩 gavayo vyapadi艣yate |
j膩tyantara峁� na goreva s膩sn膩'bh膩va岣� prat墨yate || 298 ||298. It is like the expression: 鈥榓 cow without a dewlap鈥� which refers to a gayal, a different species altogether and not to a cow with dewlap missing.
Commentary
[Another illustration is now given. The negative compound 补蝉腻蝉苍补岣� refers to a 鈥�gayal鈥� because it means: 鈥榯hat which has no dewlap鈥�. It refers to something which has no dewlap but otherwise resembles a cow, an animal belonging to a different species. That is also what happens in 补产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺 which means somebody who has not got the universal 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺迟惫补 but otherwise resembles a 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺.]