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 2.448
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.448:
फलवन्तः क्रियाभेदाः क्रियान्तरनिबन्धनाः ।
असंख्याताः क्रमोद्देशैरेकाख्यातनिदर्शनाः ॥ ४४८ ॥phalavantaḥ kriyābhedāḥ kriyāntaranibandhanāḥ |
asaṃkhyātāḥ kramoddeśairekākhyātanidarśanāḥ || 448 ||448. Varieties of action, having their fruit and involving many minor actions and infinite in number because of different modes of performance and different aims are expressed by the same verb.
Commentary
[It is stated in this verse that though the verb denoting he action may be the same, the action may differ because of difference in the mode of performance and in the results.]