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 3.14.409
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.409:
啶熰ぞ啶え啷嵿い 啶忇さ 啶氞啶む啶班ぞ啶︵ 啶多啶ぞ啶ぞ啶多が啷嵿う啶膏啶むぅ啶� 啶さ啷囙い啷� 啷�
啶膏啶む啶班 啶� 啶啶班ぅ啶ぞ啶ぞ啶掂ぞ啶ㄠ啶� 啶多啶ぞ啶ぞ啶︵啶啶じ啶班啶溹え啶 啷� 啷ウ啷� 啷�峁乥anta eva caitr膩dau 艣测腻尘腻艣abdastath膩 bhavet |
s奴tre ca pratham膩bh膩v膩nna 艣测腻尘腻dyupasarjanam || 409 ||409. The word 艣测腻尘腻 would continue to end in the suffix 峁乸 even when the compound refers to a word like caitra. As, in the s奴tra concerned, the word 蝉腻尘腻苍测补惫补肠补苍补颈岣� does not end in the first caseaffix, a word like 艣测腻尘腻 is not the upasarjana (by P. 1.2.43).
Commentary
Now M. Bh膩. I. p. 397, 1. 9-10 is going to be explained.
[Read verse 409 above]
[If the word 艣测腻尘腻 in the compound refers to 艣补蝉迟谤墨, it would be in the feminine gender and when the compound as a whole refers to an object of comparison (upameya) expressed by a masculine word, the compound would not get the required masculine gender. Instead of that we would get the expression 艣补蝉迟谤墨艣测腻尘腻 caitra岣� which is not desired. If, on the other hand, 艣测腻尘腻 refers, not to 艣补蝉迟谤墨 but to the upameya, the compound would get the desired gender.]