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 3.7.161
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.161:
अन्येन व्यपदिष्टस्य यस्यान्यत्रोपजायते ।
व्यतिरेकः स धर्मौ द्वौ लभते विषयान्तरे ॥ १६१ ॥anyena vyapadiṣṭasya yasyānyatropajāyate |
vyatirekaḥ sa dharmau dvau labhate viṣayāntare || 161 ||161. When something already characterised by one thing becomes related to still another, it partakes of two properties in different spheres.
Commentary
It is now stated that the same thing can be primary and secondary in regard to two different things.
[Read verse 161 above]
[In the sentence rājñaḥ puruśasya kambalaḥ = ‘the blanket of the king’s man’, rājñaḥ qualifies puruṣa which is, therefore, primary in regard to it. It qualifies kambala and therefore becomes secondary in regard to it. Thus one and the same thing can be primary and secondary in regard to two different things.]