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 2.89
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.89:
啶ぅ啷堗さ啷堗啶膏啶� 啶椸え啷嵿ぇ啶膏啶� 啶啶︵啶� 啶ぐ啶苦啶侧啶え啶� 啷�
啶啶粪啶ぞ啶︵た啶粪 啶むぅ啶� 啶掂ぞ啶曕啶啶洁お啷嵿く啶班啶ムぎ啷囙う啷� 啶掂た啶о啶い啷� 啷� 啷ク 啷�yathaivaikasya gandhasya medena parikalpan膩 |
pu峁膩di峁 tath膩 v膩kye'pyarthamedo vidh墨yate || 89 ||89. Just as the same scent appears to be different when it is found (in different objects like) flowers, in the same way, differentiation of meaning can be made within the sentence also.
Commentary
An analogy is now given for seeing differentiation where there is really unity.
[Read verse 89 above]
[One speaks of the smell of a flower or of sandal-wood as though they were totally different from each other, not realising that they arc really the same. The idea here seems to be that scent is one and all-pervasive, even though it may seem to be different according to the substance where it is found.]
Another analogy is now given.