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 3.14.329
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.329:
वचने नियमः शास्त्राद् द्रव्यस्याभ्युपगम्यते ।
यतस्तदाकृतौ शास्त्रमन्यथैव समर्थ्यते ॥ ३२९ ॥vacane niyamaḥ śāstrād dravyasyābhyupagamyate |
yatastadākṛtau śāstramanyathaiva samarthyate || 329 ||329. Since the use of number in regard to substance (individual) is regulated by the śāstra, the latter can be differently explained even if the universal is considered to be the meaning of words.
Commentary
[The sūtra—bahuṣu bahuvacanam (P. 1.4.21.) and the like regulate the use of number according to the view that words denote substance (individual). That sūtra can be explained even according to the view that universal is the meaning of words.]
How that is done is now stated.—[Read next verse]