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 3.14.582
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.582:
यः शब्दश्चरितार्थत्वादत्यन्तं न प्रयुज्यते ।
विषयेऽदर्शनात् तत्र लोपस्तस्याभिधीयते ॥ ५८२ ॥yaḥ śabdaścaritārthatvādatyantaṃ na prayujyate |
viṣaye'darśanāt tatra lopastasyābhidhīyate || 582 ||582. Where a word is not used because of its meaning being understood, one speaks of its elision (lopa) as it is not seen (heard) in its sphere.
Commentary
[What is meant by elision of the second term (kṛta) is now explained. It is difficult to avoid the use of a word if its meaning has to be conveyed. But if its meaning is somehow understood, it is not used and then it is said to be elided. The word dhātu means an action. What is caused by action is also called dhātu. Thus what is caused by action becomes dhātvartha. It is the means (sādhana). Thus, by taking dhātvartha. as a compound coming under the group mayūravyaṃsakādi (P. 2.1.72.), the word means sādhana. So P. 5.1.118 means: “the suffix vati is added in the Vedas to a preposition (having the meaning of sādhana) and is indicative of the meaning of the stem itself (svārthe). The compound dhātvartha can be taken as a bahuvrīhi. It would then be analysed thus: dhātuḥ kriyā arthaḥ prayojanaṃ yasya sa dhātvarthaḥ, “that is called dhātvartha the purpose of which is to help in the accomplishment of the action”. This again amounts to sādhana.]