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 1.15
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.15:
यथार्थजातयः सर्वाः शब्दाकृतिनिबन्धनाः ।
तथैव लोके विद्यानामेषा विद्या परायणम् ॥ १५ ॥yathārthajātayaḥ sarvāḥ śabdākṛtinibandhanāḥ |
tathaiva loke vidyānāmeṣā vidyā parāyaṇam || 15 ||15. Just as all the universals of things depend upon the form of their words for their communication, so is this science the basis of all the other sciences.
Notes:
Śabdākṛtinbandhanāḥ. By ākṛti, it is the jāti which is meant here. In other words, the universals of words convey the universals of meanings. (See Vāk. III. Jā. 6).