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 3.14.422
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.422:
啶呧ぅ 啶多啶ぞ啶啶� 啶多じ啷嵿い啷嵿ぐ啷�啶掂 啶多啶ぞ啶啶む啶啶掂 啶啶班く啷佮啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶多じ啷嵿い啷嵿ぐ啷� 啶ぅ啷囙く啶� 啶多啶ぞ啶啶むた 啶むぞ啶掂う啷囙さ 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷エ啷� 啷�atha 艣y膩meva 艣astr墨va峁� 艣y膩metyeva峁� prayujyate |
艣astr墨 yatheya峁� 艣y膩meti t膩vadeva prat墨yate || 422 ||422. If one says 艣astr墨艣y膩meveyam 艣测腻尘腻 鈥楽he is dark as the dagger is dark鈥�, one understands only as much as from 艣astri yath膩 iya峁� 艣测腻尘腻 鈥楽he is dark like a dagger.鈥�
Commentary
[The analytic sentence is usually similar to the sentence used in the world and in them, the word 艣测腻尘腻 may be used with both the 耻辫补尘腻苍补 and the upameya. In a compound, on the other hand, one of them is implied and need not be used. So where is the defect of having to supply much?]