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 3.14.497
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.497:
啶灌啶むさ啷嵿く啶距う啶苦し啷� 啶じ啷嵿ぎ啶距啷嵿 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶ぞ 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶ぃ啶距う啶苦さ啶む 啷�
啶呧お啷囙啷嵿し啶｀啶ぞ 啶多啶︵啶о啶洁ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶距う啷� 啶掂啶む啶むた啶班啶� 啶曕じ啷嵿く啶氞た啶む 啷� 啷ク啷� 啷�hotavy膩di峁 yasm膩cca kriy膩ny膩 br膩hma峁嚹乨ivat |
apek峁峁嚹珁膩 艣uddhe'rthe tasm膩d v峁泃tirna kasyacit || 497 ||497. As in hotavya etc. another action has to be postulated just as in the case of the word 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, therefore, none of these words stands for pure action.
Commentary
[Just as, when one says 产谤补丑尘补峁嘺惫补诲, some action has to be postulated as the common property, in the same way, in the expression: 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺hotavyena sad峁浥沘峁� k峁ttriyahotavyam = 鈥榯he 办峁迟迟谤颈测补鈥檚 act of sacrificing is like the 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺鈥檚 act of sacrificing, some other action has to be postulated as the common property. Thus words like hotavya are like 产谤腻丑尘补峁嘺, expressive of substance. If the action denoted by hotavya becomes the substratum of some other property, it ceases to be action and becomes a thing. So it is right to understand that which has action, if pure action is not suitable.]