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 3.14.404-405
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.404-405:
啶呧え啷嵿く啶む啶� 啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶ぞ啶ㄠ 啶膏う啷� 啶啶︵ぞ啶啶︵じ啶え啷嵿さ啶苦い啶 啷�
啶ㄠた啶た啶む啶む 啶啶ㄠぐ啶ㄠ啶い啷嵿ぐ 啶ㄠぞ啶ㄠぞ啶む啶掂啶ㄠ啶� 啶椸啶灌啶い啷� 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�
啶嗋ぇ啶距ぐ啷囙し啷� 啶う啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶膏 啶曕啶む啶掂啶啶むた 啶むう啶距ざ啷嵿ぐ啶ぎ啷� 啷�
啶� 啶膏ぞ啶︵啶多啶じ啷嵿く 啶掂た啶粪く 啶囙い啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶啶班お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�anyatra vartam膩na峁� sad 产丑别诲腻产丑别诲补蝉补尘补苍惫颈迟补尘 |
nimitta峁� punaranyatra n膩n膩tveneva g峁沨yate || 404 ||
膩dh膩re峁 padany膩sa峁� k峁泃vopaiti tad膩艣rayam |
sa s膩d峁浥泍asya vi峁ya ityanyairapadi艣yate || 405 ||404. The common attribute (nimitta) involving identity and difference, found in one object is observed in another object as being somewhat different.
405. It first relates to its substrata and then extends to the objects where the latter are found. Such is the scope of resemblance, so say others.
Commentary
Now the cognition of resemblance is going to be explained.
[Read verse 404-405 above]
[The quality of darkness (艣测腻尘补迟惫补) which exists in the dark colour of 艣补蝉迟谤墨 is observed to exist in Devadatt膩鈥檚 dark colour also, but as something slightly different because of its different substratum. It is also perceived as being the same. It is the same and yet not the same: 产丑别诲腻产丑别诲补蝉补尘补苍惫颈迟补尘. The darkness exists in the dark colour and the latter exists in the object which is dark. The darkness first causes the perception of resemblance in the two dark colours and then in the two objects which are their substrata. The relation between darkness and the dark colour is 蝉补尘补惫腻测补 and that between the object and darkness is samaveta蝉补尘补惫腻测补. The relation of standard and object of comparison is between the two objects, the substrata of the dark colour. Thus, resemblance, consisting of difference and identity, is different from the universal which is entirely identity. Before, it was said that two substrata become 耻辫补尘腻苍补 and upameya, if they are partly alike and partly different. Now it is stated that two substances become standard and object of comparison through resemblance of their common attribute. The resemblance of the common attribute ends in the resemblance of the substrata.]