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 3.14.58
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.58:
समुदायस्य वृत्तौ च नैकदेशो विभाष्यते ।
भेद एव विभाषायां नियतो विषयो यतः ॥ ५८ ॥samudāyasya vṛttau ca naikadeśo vibhāṣyate |
bheda eva vibhāṣāyāṃ niyato viṣayo yataḥ || 58 ||58. If a compound is made of all the constituents, there cannot be option as far as compounding of parts is concerned. The reserved scope of the general option given in P. 2.1.11. is the sentence (bheda).
Commentary
Why not say that intermediate compounding does not take place because of the general option given in P. 2.1.11.? Why attribute it to the force of bahulam in P. 2.1.57.?
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[The intermediate compounding does not take place because of the word bahulam in P. 2.1.57 and not because of P. 2.1.11. The latter rule only means that where integration of meaning is meant, there compounding is compulsory and where interdependence of meaning is meant, there would be no compounding. In a bahuvrīhi which is made in the sense of an outside word, the constituents are necessarily connected with one another and integration would result and so compounding should take place, including intermediate compounding. But the latter is made optional by the word bahulam in P. 2.1.57. Intermediate compounding does take place in the case of the bahuvrīhi compounds: pañcagavadhana and vāktvacapriya.]