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 3.9.98
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.98:
啶多啶︵啶о 啶� 啶曕ぞ啶侧 啶掂啶ぞ啶栢啶ぞ啶むぎ啶距ぎ啶苦ざ啷嵿ぐ啷� 啶� 啶啶班じ啶苦ぇ啷嵿く啶むた 啷�
啶膏ぞ啶о啶む啶掂ぎ啶ぅ啶距啶距げ啶� 啶むい啷� 啶膏啶む啶班啶｀啶う啶苦ざ啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷ギ 啷�艣uddhe ca k膩le vy膩khy膩tam膩mi艣re na prasidhyati |
s膩dhutvamayath膩k膩la峁� tat s奴tre峁噊padi艣yate || 98 ||98. That which is taught as expressive of a simple tense would not be correct if made to express a complex one. Therefore the 蝉奴迟谤补 teaches the correctness of the suffix when it expresses a different tense.
Commentary
[In the word 产丑腻惫墨, the suffix 峁噄苍颈 is taught in the sense of the future. It cannot, therefore, express the future qualified by the past. P.3.4.1. makes this possible. That is why we can have sentences like bh膩vy 腻蝉墨迟. Here the suffix in 产丑腻惫墨 expresses the future as qualified by the past.]
But why not say that the suffix in 腻蝉墨迟 expresses the past as qualified by the future?