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 3.14.590
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.590:
अभेदेनोपमानस्य भिन्नार्थोपनिपातिता ।
ऊहस्तथोपमाननामङ्गवन्नोपलभ्यते ॥ ५९० ॥abhedenopamānasya bhinnārthopanipātitā |
ūhastathopamānanāmaṅgavannopalabhyate || 590 ||590. The standard of comparison, while remaining one, serves many objects of comparison, just as (in ritual) change of number of the standard of comparison is not done any more than that of the aṅgas.
Commentary
[The suffix vati has been considered. Now another question is raised. When many objects of comparison are connected with one standard of comparison, does the latter also become many, following the number of the objects of comparison? The answer is that it does not. Remaining one, it serves all the objects of comparison. To strengthen this point, Bhartṛhari points out that in Vedic ritual, the number of the aṅga, mentioned in connection with the original (prakṛti) yāga is not changed for the vikṛtiyāga, because it is understood from the changed number of the aṅgin. Similarly, the number of the standard of comparison mentioned in connection with the prakṛtiyāga is not changed for the vikṛtiyāga.]