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 3.14.196
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.196:
啶むい啷嵿ぐ 啶膏啶掂ぞ啶ぞ啶掂た啶曕 啶侧た啶權啶椸 啶多が啷嵿う啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷� 啶掂啶お啷囙啷嵿し啶苦い啷� 啷�
啶多が啷嵿う啶� 啶曕ざ啷嵿啶苦い啷� 啶むぎ啷囙さ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶� 啶曕ぅ啶炧啶氞た啶む 啶啶班い啶苦お啶︵啶い啷� 啷� 啷оク啷� 啷�tatra sv膩bh膩vika峁� li峁単a峁� 艣abdadharme vyapek峁te |
艣abda岣� ka艣cit tamev膩rtha峁� katha帽cit pratipadyate || 196 ||196. Keeping in view the nature of words, gender has been declared to be natural. Words express the same meaning in different ways.
Commentary
[The same thing is conveyed by words having different genders: k膩r艣yam, kra艣im膩, and 办峁浥沘迟腻, three words in three different genders but having the same stem convey the same meaning. Similarly, dvaidham (P. 5. 3. 49.) has no gender and number but when the suffix 岣峚 is added to it, we can have 诲惫补颈诲丑腻苍颈. The word now expresses the same thing in a different way.]