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 1.60
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.60:
啶呧啷嵿え啶苦ざ啶啶︵じ啷嵿い啶ム啶掂ぞ啶ぎ啶椸啶ㄠた啶多が啷嵿う啶ㄠた啶え啷嵿ぇ啶ㄠ 啷�
啶呧啷嵿え啶苦ざ啷嵿ぐ啷佮い啷嵿く啷堗い啶� 啶膏啶え啷嵿ぇ啶啷嵿え啶苦ざ啶啶︵ぞ啶た啶о啶く啶� 啷� 啷ウ 啷�补驳苍颈艣补产诲补蝉迟补迟丑补颈惫腻测补尘补驳苍颈艣补产诲补苍颈产补苍诲丑补苍补岣� |
agni艣rutyaiti sa峁僢andhamagni艣abd膩bhidheyay膩 || 60 ||60. In the same way, the word agni (in the 蝉奴迟谤补 P. 4.2.33) having first conveyed its own form agni, enters into the relation (of name and named) with the word agni (used in speech) and conveyed by the word agni (in the S奴tra).
Commentary
[In the 蝉奴迟谤补1]鈥斺�淭he own form of a word鈥� etc. (蝉惫补峁� 谤奴辫补峁� 艣补产诲补蝉测补), the name and the named are separately mentioned. There, there are two words which are heard and which are meant to convey another, and the words which are to be conveyed are also two in number and they stand to each other in the relation (of name and named) and are (therefore) the object of grammatical teaching. Therefore, (the S奴tra in question), makes that word agni which has as its meaning the other word agni having the same form, the name of the other word agni conveyed by it having the same form.2
Notes
1. P. 1.1.68.
2. The construction of the last sentence in the 惫峁泃迟颈 is rather awkward and contains repetitions. The 蝉奴迟谤补 蝉惫补峁� 谤奴辫补峁� 艣补产诲补蝉测补 etc. teaches the relation of 蝉补峁僯帽腻 and 蝉补峁僯帽颈苍 between a word mentioned in a 蝉奴迟谤补 of P膩nini and the same word, having the same form, coming in actual usage. Though the 蝉补峁僯帽腻 and the 蝉补峁僯帽颈苍 have the same form, they are mentioned as different from each other. The 蝉奴迟谤补 in question refers to a word which may come in any 蝉奴迟谤补 of Panini as the 蝉补峁僯帽腻 and the same word, as it may come in actual usage, as the 蝉补峁僯帽颈苍. These two are called 辫谤补迟颈辫腻诲补办补 in the V峁泃ti. The word which actually comes in a 蝉奴迟谤补 (as agni in agner 岣峢补办) and the same word when it comes in actual usage, are called 辫谤补迟墨测补尘腻苍补. The 蝉奴迟谤补 in question tells us that the word which actually comes in a 蝉奴迟谤腻 is the name (蝉补峁僯帽腻) of the same word actually occurring in usage.