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 3.14.34
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.34:
दुःखा दुरुपपादा च तस्माद् भाष्येऽप्युदाहृता ।
युगपद्वाचिता सा तु व्यवहारार्थमाश्रिता ॥ ३४ ॥duḥkhā durupapādā ca tasmād bhāṣye'pyudāhṛtā |
yugapadvācitā sā tu vyavahārārthamāśritā || 34 ||34. Therefore, this simultaneous expression of both by each (Yugapadvācitā) has been declared to be difficult to understand and difficult to prove in the Bhāṣya but it has been adopted for practical purposes.
Commentary
[For the reasons given above, the idea that each constituent of a dvandva conveys the meanings of the others also has been declared in the Bhāṣya to be difficult to understand and difficult to explain to others. But it has been accepted for practical purposes.]
The reason for this acceptance is now stated.