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 2.127cd
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.127cd:
शब्दो वाप्यभिजल्पत्वमागतो याति वाच्यताम् ॥ १२७ ॥
śabdo vāpyabhijalpatvamāgato yāti vācyatām || 127 ||
127(cd). Or the word itself, when it becomes the abhijalpa, is its meaning.
Commentary
[What abhijalpa is becomes clear from the next verse. See Tattvasaṅgraha, 888, with the Pañjikā.]