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 2.80
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.80:
इयं श्रुत्या क्रमप्राप्तिरियमुच्चारणादिभिः ।
क्रमोऽयमत्र बलवानस्मिंस्तु न विवक्षितः ॥ ८० ॥iyaṃ śrutyā kramaprāptiriyamuccāraṇādibhiḥ |
kramo'yamatra balavānasmiṃstu na vivakṣitaḥ || 80 ||80. That here the sequence is understood through direct injunction, there through utterance etc., that the sequence is important here, insignificant there.
Commentary
[How to determine the order in which the different minor rituals belonging to a major sacrifice are to be performed is discussed in Adhyāya V of the Mī. Sū. Many guides are given there. In the sentence: hṛdayasyāgre'vadyati, atha jihvāyāḥ, the two words agre=first and atha=‘afterwards’ indicate the order. In the sūtra: parasmaipadānāṃ ṇalatus.. (P. 3.4.82), the order of enumeration indicates the order of application.
This order is sometimes very important, as, for instance in the Vedic sentence: prathamam bhojayitavyaḥ tato'bhyañjanam=he should be fed first and then anointed. Sometimes, it is quite significant. Thus, though a naimittika sacrifice may be mentioned after a kāmya one, the two need not be performed in their order, because the two are not connected together by one purpose. Therefore, if the occasion (nimitta) arises earlier than the desire, the naimittika sacrifice may be performed earlier. See Mī.Sū. V.3.32-36. All this is possible only if the individual word and its meaning have a separate existence, because, the determination of the order involves picking a word out of a sentence.]