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 2.7
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.7:
啶ぅ啷堗 啶忇さ 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶啶班い啷嵿く啶 啶啶班さ啶苦き啶溹啶い啷� 啷�
啶︵啶多啶き啷囙う啶距え啷佮啶距ぐ啷囙ぃ 啶掂ぞ啶曕啶ぞ啶班啶ムぞ啶ㄠ啶椸ぎ啶膏啶むぅ啶� 啷� 啷� 啷�yathaika eva sarv膩rthapratyaya岣� pravibhajyate |
d峁浥泍abhed膩nuk膩re峁嘺 v膩ky膩rth膩nugamastath膩 || 7 ||7. Just as the one entity, comprising the cognition of all objects is differentiated on the basis of distinction in what is cognised, so is the cognition of the sentence-meaning.
Commentary
[叠丑补谤迟峁沨补谤颈 really wants to set forth the following view: The sentence is the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦, either external or internal. It is external when it is clearly uttered. Till then, it is internal. In any case, it is indivisible. It has two aspects: the sound aspect and the meaning aspect which are identified with one another. It is essentially in the nature of knowledge or consciousness because it illuminates an object. Because of articulation, it assumes the form of sound. Though indivisible, it appears to have divisions just as our complex cognition, though one, appears to have inner differentiation because of the objects in it. The picture is one but we seem to see different colours within it. That is what happens with the sentence and the sentence-meaning. Both are indivisible like the flavour of a cold drink, or the juice in a pea-hen鈥檚 egg, or the form of a picture, the 苍补谤补蝉颈峁僪补, the gavaya and our perception of a picture. The indivisible sentence is the 蝉辫丑辞峁璦 and the indivisible sentence-meaning is 辫谤补迟颈产丑腻. But both appear to have divisions.]