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 3.8.41
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.41:
एकत्वावृत्तिभावाभ्यां भेदाभेदसमन्वये ।
संख्यास्तत्रोपलभ्यन्ते संख्येयावयवक्रियाः ॥ ४१ ॥ekatvāvṛttibhāvābhyāṃ bhedābhedasamanvaye |
saṃkhyāstatropalabhyante saṃkhyeyāvayavakriyāḥ || 41 ||41. Because of its oneness and of the possibility of repetition, it is connected with both differentiation and identity. Therefore, numbers are found used with it when the parts (of the group of repetitions) are counted.
Commentary
[When the agent is the same and the result is the same, the action is one and the same, but it can be repeated. There cannot be repetition if there is absolute difference nor can there be any if there is absolute identity. It is possible only if there is bhedābheda. Action becomes associated with number only when it is repeated. The suffix kṛtvasuc is expressive of the number of repetitions of all action and not of the number of the action which is, in itself, without any number. The suffixes in a verb express the number of the agent or of the object and not of the action. A word ending in a primary suffix like ghañ expresses action as a thing and not as a process. A thing is always expressed as associated with number.]
Here a doubt is expressed.