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 2.441
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.441:
संप्रत्ययार्थाद् बाह्योऽर्थः सन्नसन्वा विभज्यते ।
बाह्यीकृत्य विभागस्तु शक्त्यपोद्धारलक्षणः ॥ ४४१ ॥saṃpratyayārthād bāhyo'rthaḥ sannasanvā vibhajyate |
bāhyīkṛtya vibhāgastu śaktyapoddhāralakṣaṇaḥ || 441 ||441. From the sentence-meaning which is of the nature of cognition, a word meaning having or not having something external corresponding to it but appearing to have it is analysed. The analysis consists in abstracting the powers capable of conveying the word meanings.
Commentary
[This verse says that the sentence-meaning is something mental, not having anything corresponding to it in the external world. As it has nothing corresponding to it in the external world, it has not been seen and that is why it is looked upon as something new. It is in the nature of a connection and connection is something mental. That is why it cannot be a real part of the sentence-meaning. Anything which appears to be a part is unreal. As the sentence is mental, its parts, if any, can also be only mental, but it appears to be external or it is identified with the real external object.]