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 3.14.509
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.509:
क्रमं तु यदि बाधित्वा प्रत्ययार्थविशेषणम् ।
प्रधानानुग्रहात् साम्याद् विभक्तेश्चावतिष्ठते ॥ ५०९ ॥kramaṃ tu yadi bādhitvā pratyayārthaviśeṣaṇam |
pradhānānugrahāt sāmyād vibhakteścāvatiṣṭhate || 509 ||509. By disregarding sequence, the word (kriyā) would become the qualifier of the meaning of the suffix, because it would then serve what is dominant and because of the same-ness of the case-ending.
Commentary
[In view of the difficulties pointed out, it is proposed that the word kriyā in the sūtra P. 5.1.115. should be taken as a qualifier of the meaning of the suffix referred to by the word tulyam. The word tena no doubt comes first in the sūtra but that consideration would come under the authority called krama (sequence). But stronger than that is direct statement which would include sameness of case-ending. Tulyam and kriyā arc in the same case-ending (samāna vibhakti). Secondly, the meaning of the suffix is the dominant one. So it is better to take the word kriyā as a qualifier of tulyam which stands for the meaning of the suffix. This would also save one from the necessity of resorting to adhyāhāra = bringing in what is not mentioned in the sūtra to explain it. This is what one had to do in the prakṛtyarthaviśeṣaṇapakṣa.]
It is now stated that in this new interpretation also the same difficulty would arise.