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 3.14.197
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.197:
啶多が啷嵿う啶距う啶班啶ムぞ啶� 啶啶班い啶距く啶ㄠ啶む 啶� 啶啶︵ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶掂た啶оぞ啶啶� 啷�
啶呧え啷佮ぎ啶距え啶� 啶掂た啶掂啷嵿し啶距く啶距 啶多が啷嵿う啶距う啶ㄠ啶え啷嵿え 啶掂た啶︵啶い啷� 啷� 啷оク啷� 啷�艣abd膩darth膩岣� prat膩yante sa bhed膩n膩峁� vidh膩yaka岣� |
anum膩na峁� vivak峁Ｄ亂膩岣� 艣abd膩danyanna vidyate || 197 ||197. Meanings are elaborated out of the word, it is that which creates meanings. And there is no other means of inferring the speaker鈥檚 intention than the word.
Commentary
[It would not be right to attribute this variety in the way in which words express the same thing to the speaker鈥檚 intention because, in the world, it is from the words that we infer the speaker鈥檚 intention. 膧辫补岣� presents water as having plurality and udaka presents the same thing as a whole, having the singular number. 顿腻谤腻岣� presents the idea of a wife with the masculine gender and plural number and the word 产丑腻谤测腻 presents the same thing as feminine and singular. All this is due to the natural power of words.]
Others hold a different view as follows鈥�