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 3.7.77
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.77:
啶啶︵さ啶距啷嵿く啶� 啶む 啶い啷� 啶｀啶え啷嵿い啷� 啶ㄠ啶︵啶灌た啶むお啷嵿ぐ啶曕啶む 啶� 啶い啷� 啷�
啶多が啷嵿う啶距え啷嵿い啶班い啷嵿さ啶距え啷嵿え啷堗さ啶距じ啷嵿い啶� 啶膏啶膏啶ぐ啷嵿ざ啶膏啶むじ啷嵿く 啶оぞ啶む啶ㄠぞ 啷� 啷キ 啷�bhedav膩kya峁� tu yat 峁噛ante 苍墨duhitaprak峁泃au ca yat |
艣abd膩ntaratv膩nnaiv膩sti sa峁僺par艣astasya dh膩tun膩 || 77 ||77. As for the explanatory sentence in regard to verbs ending in a causative affix and to the roots 鈭�苍墨 and 鈭�duh, it consists of different words and has no connection with the root in question.
Commentary
Just as gamayati is explained as: 鈥榟e prompts to go the person who goes鈥�, in the same way, why not explain dogdhi as: he prompts to yield (milk) that which yields?
[Read verse 77 above]
[As for explanatory sentences like gacchantam prayu峁卥te = 鈥榟e prompts to go the person who goes鈥�, in the case of gamayati and gr膩mam pr膩pnuvant墨m aj膩m prayu峁卥te = 鈥榟e prompts the goat which is going to the village鈥� in the case of 补箩腻峁� 驳谤腻尘补峁� nayati, they are really different from the verbs which they are supposed to explain. They only draw out the implication of the meaning of the verb. They should not be taken too seriously. Therefore the meaning of the causative affix is really not implied in the meanings of the roots duh and 苍墨. These roots express only one action having two objects, the main object comes under P. 1.4.49 and the secondary object under P. 1.4,51. They belong to two different categories as mentioned in stanza 70. In the case of roots like 苍墨 and duh, the passive verb expresses the secondary object as taught in the 惫腻谤迟迟颈办补.
辫谤补诲丑腻苍补办补谤尘补峁噛腻办丑测别测别, etc. under P. 1.4.51.]
The author now states the accepted doctrine.