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 3.14.112
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.112:
विद्यमानसु सङ्खयासु केचित् सङ्खयान्तरं विदुः ।
अभेदाख्यमुपग्राहि वृत्तौ तच्चोपजायते ॥ ११२ ॥vidyamānasu saṅkhayāsu kecit saṅkhayāntaraṃ viduḥ |
abhedākhyamupagrāhi vṛttau taccopajāyate || 112 ||112. Some declare that the undifferentiated number which comes into being in a vṛtti, when the different numbers are there, is a different kind of number which includes all of them (upagrāhi).
Commentary
[According to some, the undifferentiated singular (abhedaikatva) includes within itself all the particular numbers, it is an amalgamation of all of them and that is what comes into being in a vṛtti.]
As it includes all the numbers, forms like godau grāmaḥ become possible.