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 3.14.101
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.101:
啶啶︵ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶掂ぞ 啶ぐ啶苦い啷嵿く啶距啶距い啷� 啶膏啷嵿啶ぞ啶む啶ぞ 啶� 啶むぅ啶距さ啶苦ぇ啶� 啷�
啶掂啶ぞ啶ぞ啶班ぞ啶溹啶溹い啶苦き啶距啶膏啶� 啶啶︵ぞ啶啶灌啶� 啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷� 啷оウ啷� 啷�bhed膩n膩峁� v膩 parity膩g膩t sa峁卥hay膩tm膩 sa tath膩vidha岣� |
vy膩p膩r膩jjatibh膩gasya bhed膩pohena vartate || 101 ||101. It is the essence of number (蝉补峁僰丑测腻迟尘腻) because it excludes all particular numbers. It exists by the operation of the universal aspect and by ignoring the particular aspect.
Commentary
[Just as the singular number exeludes duality and plurality and duality excludes plurality etc. in the same way the abhedaikatva excludes all particulars like singularity. Thus it has the common property of all number and so it is called 蝉补峁僰丑测腻. Depending on circumstances, one can understand a particular number from it. Before it was looked upon as an amalgam of all particulars. Now it is looked upon as having the common property of all numbers, namely, the exclusion of other numbers (产丑别诲腻辫辞丑补). In other words it is looked upon as a kind of universal.]
It might be said that it cannot be a universal. Universals like 鈥榗ow-ness鈥� (gotva) are postulated on the basis of their effect, namely, uniformity of cognition. But abhedaikatva cannot have any effect, because all grammatical operations take place on particular numbers. So how can one postulate the existence of abhedaikatva? This objection is answered as follows鈥�