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 3.14.105
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.105:
啶呧さ啷嵿く啶ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶� 啶 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷� 啶ざ啷嵿 啶啶︵さ啶むぞ啶� 啶曕啶班ぎ啶� 啷�
啶呧き啶苦え啷嵿え啶掂啶お啶︵啶多ぞ啶班啶灌ぎ啶ㄠ啶むぐ啶距げ啶� 啶むう啷囙い啶啶� 啷� 啷оウ啷� 啷�avyay膩n膩峁� ca yo dharmo ya艣ca bhedavat膩峁� krama岣� |
abhinnavyapade艣膩rhamantar膩la峁� tadetayo岣� || 105 ||105. It is fit to be called undifferentiated and so it is midway between the property of indeclinables and of words having different case-endings.
Commentary
[Indeclinables express a meaning which is not of the nature of sattva and has, therefore, no gender and number. Words having different case-endings express a meaning having a particular gender and number. Such is the nature of these two kinds of words. The secondary constituent of a compound comes midway between the two. It expresses undifferentiated number. Here is where a sentence and a compound differ.]