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 3.14.106
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.106:
啶呧げ啷佮啶多啶氞啶曕さ啶︵啶ぞ啶掂じ啷嵿い啶膏啶た啶ㄠ 啶膏い啶� 啶� 啶多た啶粪啶い啷� 啷�
啶� 啶� 啶椸啶粪啶氞ぐ啶距う啷�啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷嬥そ啶膏啶むた 啶掂啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠ啶むぐ啷� 啷� 啷оウ啷� 啷�aluka艣caikavadbh膩vastasmin sati na 艣i峁ate |
sa ca go峁car膩d墨n膩峁� dharmo'sti vacan膩ntare || 106 ||106. Undifferentiated singular number, being there, 鈥榖ecoming like one鈥� (别办补惫补诲产丑腻惫补) is not taught in connection with compounds with unelided caseendings (补濒耻办蝉补尘腻蝉补). Even with another particular number (the plural) it (the undifferentiated singular) exists in compounds like 驳辞峁肠补谤补.
Commentary
[It is because the secondary constituent conveys undifferentiated number that 鈥榖ecoming like one鈥� (别办补惫补诲产丑腻惫补) is not taught in connection with compounds having unelided caseendings. The plural number which one sees in compounds like 驳辞峁肠补谤补, 惫补谤峁Ｄ乻耻箩补 and apsuyoni is not the one which expresses the plurality of individuals. It expresses the singular number of the universal according to P. 1. 2. 58.]