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 3.14.218
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.218:
啶膏ぞ啶ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶оた啶曕ぐ啶｀啶 啶氞啶ㄠ啶い啷佮が啷嵿げ啷嬥お啶距い啷� 啶啶班啶侧啶い啷� 啷�
啶い啷佮お啷嬥そ啶た 啶むう啶班啶ムい啷嵿さ啶距う啶ㄠさ啶膏啶ムぞ 啶啶班じ啶溹啶い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠェ啷� 啷�s膩m膩n膩dhikara峁噛a峁� cenmatublop膩t prakalpate |
matupo'pi tadarthatv膩danavasth膩 prasajyate || 218 ||218. If it is maintained that the 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 is in apposition to the external word expressive of sattva by the elision of the matup suffix (as in the case of words like 艣耻办濒补, there would be regressus ad infinitum because the matup also expresses relation.
Commentary
If the 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 expresses the meaning of a case-ending, that is, some relation, it being asattva, how to explain the gender and number of the compound? This difficulty is now stated.
[Read verse 218 above]
[To say that the 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 expresses the meaning of a caseending is to say that it expresses a relation, It has been taught in the sense of matup (See M. Bh膩. I. p. 424, 1. 17-18,) which also expresses a relation. Unless the compound denotes the related, it cannot take its gender and number. If it is held that the matup expresses the related (sambandhin) then the 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 also would do the same and then the view that it expresses the meaning of a case-ending would have to be given up. ]
In 艣耻办濒补岣� 辫补迟补岣�, 艣耻办濒补岣� means not merely the quality white but a 鈥榳hite object鈥� because the suffix matup is supposed to have been elided there. We cannot say the same thing about 肠颈濒谤补驳耻岣� because the matup suffix is not added to it at all, as the compound itself denotes the meaning of matup.]
If the 产补丑耻惫谤墨丑颈 is said to be formed in the sense of a caseending and if matup is added to it, another difficulty would arise which is now stated.