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 3.14.74
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.74:
啶多が啷嵿う啶� 啶ぅ啶� 啶掂た啶啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む 啶ぞ啶椸啶班た啶� 啶掂た啶曕げ啷嵿お啶苦い啷堗 啷�
啶呧え啷嵿さ啶距啷嵿く啷囙く啶距じ啷嵿い啶ムぞ 啶多ぞ啶膏啶む啶班ぎ啶むた啶︵啶班 啶掂啶さ啶膏啶ムた啶むぎ啷� 啷� 啷オ 啷�艣abd膩 yath膩 vibhajyante bh膩gairiva vikalpitai岣� |
anv膩khyey膩stath膩 艣腻蝉迟谤补matid奴re vyavasthitam || 74 ||74. In whatever way words are divided into apparent parts according to one鈥檚 choice, so they arc grammatically derived. The 艣腻蝉迟谤补 is really far from the reality.
Commentary
[The division of words is only for the sake of grammatical derivation. The word is really indivisible. There are different ways of splitting the same word. There is no fixity about it. Different systems of grammar may do it differently. The result is that the Science of Grammar is very far from the reality.]