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 3.14.304
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.304:
啶︵啶掂え啷嵿う啷嵿さ啷堗啶︵啶多た啶ㄠ啶班啶曕啶むぞ 啶ぐ啶掂げ啷嵿げ啶苦啷嵿啶むぞ 啶い啶� 啷�
啶呧さ啶班啶粪ぞ啶膏 啶むい啷嬥そ啶膏た啶︵啶оた啶班た啶粪啶熰く啷嬥ぐ啷嵿げ啶苦啷嵿啶膏啶栢啶く啷� 啷� 啷┼ウ啷� 啷�dvandvaikade艣inorukt膩 paravalli峁単at膩 yata岣� |
avar峁Ｄ乻u tato'siddhiri峁ａ弓ayorli峁単asa峁僰hyayo || 304 ||304. Since the gender of the second constituent is restricted to a dvandva and to an 别办补诲别艣颈蝉补尘腻蝉补 (P. 2.2.1.), the desired gender and number would not result in the compound 补惫补谤峁Ｄ乭.
Commentary
Though the meaning of the negative compound can somehow be explained according to the view that it denotes an outside object, the M. Bh膩. points out a technical defect in it which is now explained.
[Read verse 304 above]
[The technical defect pointed out is that in 补惫补谤峁Ｄ佱弗 丑别尘补苍迟补岣�, the negative compound 补惫补谤峁Ｄ佱弗 would get the masculine gender and singular number as it would be looked upon as the qualifier of 丑别尘补苍迟补岣� whereas the feminine gender and the plural number are desired. Nor can the desired gender result from P. 2.4.26, because v膩. 7. on it restricts it to 别办补诲别艣颈蝉补尘腻蝉补 formed by P. 2.2.1. and so it does not apply to a negative compound. ]
The 补苍测补辫补诲腻谤迟丑补 view being thus defective, something is now going to be said about the view that it is the meaning of the first constituent, that is, the negative particle, which is predominant.