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 3.14.233
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.233:
केचित् संयोगिनो दण्डाद् विषाणात् समवायिनः ।
तद्वति प्रत्ययानाहुर्बहुर्वीहिं तथैव च ॥ २३३ ॥kecit saṃyogino daṇḍād viṣāṇāt samavāyinaḥ |
tadvati pratyayānāhurbahurvīhiṃ tathaiva ca || 233 ||233. Some hold that the possessive (matvartha) suffixes come after the word daṇḍa qualified by the relation of contact (saṃyoga) and after the word viṣāṇa, qualified by the relation of inherence (samavāya) in the sense of one who has the one or the other (tadvati) and that is what happens in the case of the bahuvrīhi compound.
Commentary
Those who uphold the padārihābhidhānapakṣa put forward the analogy of the matvartha formations as follows—
[Read verse 233 above]
[Those who hold the padārthābhidhānapakṣa point out that the bahuvrīhi is like a word formed with a possessive suffix (matvarthīya). In daṇḍin and viṣāṇin, for instance, formed by P. 5.2.115., the suffix ini is added to the words daṇḍa and viṣāṇa in the sense of that which has daṇḍa by the relation of saṃyoga and that which has viṣāṇa by the relation of samavāya. In other words, a substance qualified by a relation is the basis of the formations daṇḍin and viṣāṇin. Similarly, the related, that is, the meanings of the constituent terms, qualified by some relation to the meaning of the external word, are the basis of the bahuvrīhi compound.]
The other view is as follows—