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 3.14.279
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.279:
啶啶︵啶о啶班啶掂た啶粪く啶むぞ啶� 啶啶班ぞ啶啶む 啶多が啷嵿う啶距う啶班啶ム 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶啶班さ啷冟い啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷嵿さ啶� 啶ㄠた啶掂啶む啶むた啶班啶掂ぞ 啶多啶班啶む啶ぞ 啶灌啶ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷嬥そ啶ㄠ啶粪啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷ㄠキ啷� 啷�buddhervi峁yat膩峁� pr膩pte 艣abd膩darthe prat墨yate |
prav峁泃tirv膩 niv峁泃tirv膩 艣ruty膩 hyartho'nu峁jyate || 279 ||279. In regard to what has been determined by the mind, one understands from a word its existence or non-existence (prav峁泃tir va niv峁泃tir v膩鈥攁ction or absention from action). It is the word which is connected with meaning.
Commentary
[It is not only here but everywhere that one understands from a word something which is created by the mind. It is that which is the basis of usage and it does not take into consideration whether something corresponding to it exists outside or not. Words convey something which may or may not exist, something which is common to both existence and nonexistence. Therefore, a word may express a qualifier which is of a positive or negative nature.]
Something is now being said about a negative compound when the meaning of the second constituent is predominant.