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 3.14.214
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.214:
अगोरचित्रगोश्चैव रूपभेदान्निवर्तकः ।
एवं चित्रगुविशेषाणां रूपाभेदात्तु वाचकः ॥ २१४ ॥agoracitragoścaiva rūpabhedānnivartakaḥ |
evaṃ citraguviśeṣāṇāṃ rūpābhedāttu vācakaḥ || 214 ||214. The bahuvrīhi excludes one who has no cows and one who has no motley-coloured cows because of difference in form but because of identity of form, it does not denote the particular individuals who own motley-coloured cows.
Commentary
[It is not that the bahavrīhi compound is totally incapable of particularising. There is, at least, some negative particularisation. Citragu, for instance, excludes one who has no cows and one whose cows are not motley coloured. For complete particularisation, a word denoting one individual has to be used in apposition to it. Even if a general word is used in apposition to it, as in Citragu tat Citragu Kiñcit, Citragu sarvam, that would also particularise because it would exclude other particularisations.]