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 1.84
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.84:
啶ㄠぞ啶︵啶班ぞ啶灌た啶むが啷�啶溹ぞ啶ぞ啶え啷嵿い啷嵿く啷囙え 啶о啶掂え啶苦え啶� 啶膏す 啷�
啶嗋さ啷冟い啷嵿い啶ぐ啶苦お啶距啶距く啶距 啶啶︵啶о 啶多が啷嵿う啷嬥そ啶掂ぇ啶距ぐ啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷オ 啷�n膩dair膩hitab墨j膩y膩mantyena dhvanin膩 saha |
膩v峁泃taparip膩k膩y膩峁� buddhau 艣abdo'vadh膩ryate || 84 ||84. The word is grasped in the (final) cognition the seeds of which have been sown by the sounds including the final one and which has gradually attained maturity.1
Commentary
The sounds, while they manifest the word, leave impression-seeds2 progressively clearer and conducive to the clear perception (of the word). Then, the final sound brings to the mind which has now attained maturity or a certain fitness by the awakening of the impressions of the previous cognitions, the form of the word as coloured by itself?
Notes
1. Verses 82, 83 and 84 are quoted in the Spho峁璦siddhi (p. 132), (Madras University Sanskrit Series 6).
2. 痴测补办迟补辫补谤颈肠肠丑别诲腻苍耻驳耻峁嘺蝉补峁僺办腻谤补产丑腻惫补苍腻产墨箩腻苍颈. 厂补峁僺办腻谤补, 产丑腻惫补苍腻 and 产墨箩补 denote the same thing. They stand, according to V峁�., for three aspects of the same thing. The previous somewhat vague cognitions of the 蝉辫丑辞峁� leave their impressions in the mind. V峁�. says that they are called 蝉补峁僺办腻谤补蝉 because, they, in a way, perfect the mind; they are called 产丑腻惫补苍腻 because they give them the form of consciousness (产丑腻惫补测补苍迟颈) and, finally, they are called seeds (产墨箩腻苍颈) because they are the causes of the later clear cognition.
3. 鲍辫补驳谤补丑别峁嘺. Vr. explains this by 鈥�蝉惫墨办腻谤别峁嘺鈥�. This is probably a reference to the fact that the sound colours the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 with its own form.