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 2.228
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.228:
啶溹す啶む啶膏啶掂ぞ啶班啶ムさ啶苦啶侧啶 啶� 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶む啶ぞ啶椸ぎ啶苦啷嵿啶むぞ 啷�
啶す啷佮さ啷嵿ぐ啷�啶灌た啶う啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶膏啶� 啶む啶ぞ啶椸 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶膏啶� 啶︵ぐ啷嵿ざ啶苦い啶� 啷� 啷ㄠエ啷� 啷�jahatsv膩rthavikalpe ca sarv膩rthaty膩gamicchat膩 |
产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈pad膩rthasya ty膩ga岣� sarvasya dar艣ita岣� || 228 ||228. By declaring that, according to the 箩补丑补迟蝉惫腻谤迟丑腻 view, words entering into a compound give up all their meaning, the Bh膩峁ak膩ra has shown that in a 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 compound all the terms give up their meaning.
Commentary
[This verse is an answer to the objection that if individual words have no meaning, how can one speak about the idea of the different terms giving up or not giving up their meaning when they enter into a compound word (箩补丑补迟蝉惫腻谤迟丑腻 惫谤迟迟颈岣� and a箩补丑补迟蝉惫腻谤迟丑腻 惫峁泃迟颈岣�). In the 惭.叠丑腻 on P.2.1.1., 笔补迟补帽箩补濒颈 goes into the question whether a compound word has a meaning different from that of the words entering into it. The two main views on this question are represented by the two expressions given above. If, in a 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈, the whole denotes a meaning totally different from that of the parts, it is a further proof that the meaning of the parts has no reality.]