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 3.8.43-44
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.43-44:
तत्र कारकयोगाया यद्याख्यातं निबन्धनम् ।
षष्ठ्याः सा लेन संबन्धे व्युदस्ता कर्तृकर्मणोः ॥ ४३ ॥
एकाभिधान एकोऽर्थो युगपच्च द्विधर्मभाक् ।
न सम्भवति सिद्धत्वे स साध्यः स्यात् कथं पुनः ॥ ४४ ॥tatra kārakayogāyā yadyākhyātaṃ nibandhanam |
ṣaṣṭhyāḥ sā lena saṃbandhe vyudastā kartṛkarmaṇoḥ || 43 ||
ekābhidhāna eko'rtho yugapacca dvidharmabhāk |
na sambhavati siddhatve sa sādhyaḥ syāt kathaṃ punaḥ || 44 ||43. If it is argued that the sixth case affix expressive of an accessory is used in connection with a verb, it must be remembered that, in association with a verb (lena) such a case-affix has been prohibited.
44. The meaning of the same word cannot have two contradictory attributes at the same time. If it is siddha (a finished thing), how can it be sādhya (something to be brought about).
Commentary
[It cannot be maintained that when the word pāka becomes connected with a word expressive of accessory as in odanasya pākaḥ it expresses a process (sādhya) and when it becomes connected with a verbal element expressive of number, it denotes a thing (siddha). The meaning expressed by a word cannot have two contradictory attributes, both coming from the same word.]
It is now pointed out that it is not the same verbal element which expresses both the attributes.