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 2.173
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.173:
啶呧え啷嵿く啶ムぞ 啶� 啶膏ぎ啶距啷嵿く啶ㄠぎ啶掂じ啷嵿ぅ啶距ぎ啷囙う啶︵ぐ啷嵿ざ啶苦き啶苦 啷�
啶曕啶班た啶い啷� 啶曕た啶傕ざ啷佮啶距う啷�啶ㄠぞ啶啶曕う啷囙ざ啶距さ啶оぞ啶班ぃ啶距い啷� 啷� 啷оキ啷� 啷�anyath膩 ca sam膩khyanamavasth膩medadar艣ibhi岣� |
kriyate ki峁兣泆k膩d墨n膩mekade艣膩vadh膩ra峁嚹乼 || 173 ||173. People who observe the different conditions of the object (denoted by the word in question) explain a word like, say, 办颈峁兣泆办补 by taking hold of one particular condition.
Commentary
[笔耻峁噛补谤腻箩补 points out that somebody might explain the word 办颈峁兣泆办补 which means the 辫补濒腻艣补 tree by reference to its state when it is devoid of all fruit and, therefore, of parrots. The tree is called 办颈峁兣泆办补 = what! parrot! meaning something where there is no parrot because there is no fruit. Objects have many powers or states according to time and place. Man observes them and applies a word to it according to any one of these powers or states. The two become closely associated.
The 痴峁泃迟颈 points out that there is no contradiction in fixing the form of a word on the basis of one particular power as in the case of the word 办颈峁兣泆办补 for 辫补濒腻艣补, arrived at on the basis of the absence of any parrot (艣耻办补) on it when there is no fruit: ki峁兣泆k膩n膩m iva k膩labhede 艣aktau kasy膩帽cicchabdasya vyavasth膩y膩峁� na virudhyate.]