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 2.479-481
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.479-481:
बैजिसौभवर्य्यक्षैः शुष्कतर्कानुसारिभिः ।
आर्षे विप्लाविते ग्रन्थे संग्रहप्रतिकञ्चुके ॥ ४७९ ॥
यः पतञ्जलिशिष्येभ्यो भ्रष्टो व्यकरणागमः ।
काले स दाक्षिणात्येषु ग्रन्थमात्रे व्यवस्थितः ॥ ४८० ॥
पर्वतादागमं लब्ध्वा भाष्यबीजानुसारिभिः ।
स नीतो बहुशाख्त्वं चन्द्राचार्यादिभिः पुनः ॥ ४८१ ॥baijisaubhavaryyakṣaiḥ śuṣkatarkānusāribhiḥ |
ārṣe viplāvite granthe saṃgrahapratikañcuke || 479 ||
yaḥ patañjaliśiṣyebhyo bhraṣṭo vyakaraṇāgamaḥ |
kāle sa dākṣiṇātyeṣu granthamātre vyavasthitaḥ || 480 ||
parvatādāgamaṃ labdhvā bhāṣyabījānusāribhiḥ |
sa nīto bahuśākhtvaṃ candrācāryādibhiḥ punaḥ || 481 ||479. When that sacred work which was an epitome of the Saṅgraha was ruined by Baiji, Saubhava and Haryakṣa who merely followed dry reasoning.
480. The Grammatical Tradition slipped away from the hands of the disciples of Patañjali and in time, the mere text of it survived in the South.
481. Then Ācārya Candra and other followers of the principles of the Bhāṣya obtained the true Tradition from the mountain and elaborated it into many branches.
Commentary
[Puṇyarāja says that by ‘mountain’, the Trikūṭa is meant. He also refers to the belief that there on that mountain the original Grammatical Tradition, composed by Rāvaṇa and engraved on stone, existed. Some Brahmarakṣas brought it from there and gave it to Ācāryas Candra, Vasurāta and they understood the true nature of the Science of Grammar from it and imparted it to their disciples and incessantly elaborated it. In the end it became a discipline with many branches.]