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 3.14.506
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.506:
प्रकृत्यर्थे विशिष्टेऽपि प्रत्ययार्थाविशेषणात् ।
पुत्रेण तुल्यः कपिल इति वृत्तिः प्रसज्यते ॥ ५०६ ॥prakṛtyarthe viśiṣṭe'pi pratyayārthāviśeṣaṇāt |
putreṇa tulyaḥ kapila iti vṛttiḥ prasajyate || 506 ||506. Even if the meaning of the stem is qualified (by the word kriyā), that of the suffix is not and so
a complex formation (vṛtti) by the addition of the suffix vati would become possible in the sense of putreṇa tulyaḥ kapilaḥ.
Commentary
[Another difficulty in the prakṛtyarthaviśeṣaṇapakṣa, pointed out in the M. Bhā. II, p. 63, 1.21, namely that the suffix vati could be added to a word in the third case-ending expressive of action in the sense of resemblance in some quality, is now explained. As the word kriyā is mentioned only once in the sūtra, after qualifying the stem, it becomes exhausted, and does not qualify the meaning of the suffix and so the suffix could be added to a word ending in the third case-affix when there is resemblance in respect of some quality. One would say putravat kapilaḥ in the sense of putreṇa tulyaḥ kapilaḥ. But this is not desired.]
But how is the word putra an action-word?