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 3.14.44
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.44:
अर्थस्य विनिवृत्तत्वाल्लुगादि न विरुध्यते ।
एकार्थीभाव एवातः समासाख्या विधीयते ॥ ४४ ॥arthasya vinivṛttatvāllugādi na virudhyate |
ekārthībhāva evātaḥ samāsākhyā vidhīyate || 44 ||44. The elision (of the case-endings, is not improper considering that this meaning is not there. That is why the name ‘compound’ is taught when there is integration of meaning.
Commentary
[Compounding has been thought of as taking place in two ways: (1) by the giving up of its meaning by the secondary word (jahatsvārthā vṛtti) (2) by its not doing so. In the first way, the meaning of the secondary word is not there at all. In the second way, even if the secondary word docs not give up its meaning, it is mixed up with that of the primary word and so has no separate existence and so no relation based on difference is possible. Nor is any particular number understood from it. It is, therefore, natural that the case-ending should be considered to have disappeared because of that. That is why integration of meaning is supposed to take place in a compound. In a sentence, on the other hand, where each word exists separately, a particular number is understood and so the case-ending is retained. It is seen that the sentence and the compound have each its own scope. They are not exactly alternate ways of saying the same thing. That is why giving option between the two has been declared to be improper.]