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 3.14.284
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.284:
ब्राह्मणत्वं यथापन्ना नञ्युक्ताः क्षत्रियादयः ।
द्वित्वादिषु तथैकत्वं नञ्योगादुपचर्यते ॥ २८४ ॥brāhmaṇatvaṃ yathāpannā nañyuktāḥ kṣatriyādayaḥ |
dvitvādiṣu tathaikatvaṃ nañyogādupacaryate || 284 ||284. Just as kṣattriya and the like are identified with a brāhmaṇa when the latter is associated with the negative particle, in the same way, unity (ekatvam) is superimposed on two etc. because of association with the negative particle.
Commentary
[Just as the word brāhmaṇa in the compound stands for kṣattriya etc. because of association with the negative particle, in the same way, in anekam, eka stands for other numbers because of association with the negative particle. From anekam, a meaning similar to that of the second constituent is understood as in the case of abrāhmaṇa.]