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 3.11.21
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.11.21:
असंख्यासमुदायत्वात् संख्याकार्यं विधीयते ।
समूहत्वे तु तन्न स्यात् स्वाङ्गादिसमुदायवत् ॥ २१ ॥asaṃkhyāsamudāyatvāt saṃkhyākāryaṃ vidhīyate |
samūhatve tu tanna syāt svāṅgādisamudāyavat || 21 ||21. Grammatical operations to be performed on a numeral are taught because the word is not a mere collection of numerals. If it were only that, they could not be performed, just as grammatical operations to be performed on a word expressive of svāṅga etc. cannot be performed on words which are merely collections of words expressive of svāṅga.
Commentary
[These grammatical operations are taught in P. 5. 2. 46; 5. 2. 56; 5. 4. 17; 5. 2. 47; 5. 1. 22; 2. 2. 25 and so on. Just as a collection of svāṅga is not svāṅga nor a collection of janapada a janapada in the same way. a collection of numerals is not a numeral.]