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 3.14.106
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.106:
अलुकश्चैकवद्भावस्तस्मिन् सति न शिष्यते ।
स च गोषुचरादीनां धर्मोऽस्ति वचनान्तरे ॥ १०६ ॥alukaścaikavadbhāvastasmin sati na śiṣyate |
sa ca goṣucarādīnāṃ dharmo'sti vacanāntare || 106 ||106. Undifferentiated singular number, being there, ‘becoming like one’ (ekavadbhāva) is not taught in connection with compounds with unelided caseendings (aluksamāsa). Even with another particular number (the plural) it (the undifferentiated singular) exists in compounds like goṣucara.
Commentary
[It is because the secondary constituent conveys undifferentiated number that ‘becoming like one’ (ekavadbhāva) is not taught in connection with compounds having unelided caseendings. The plural number which one sees in compounds like goṣucara, varṣāsuja and apsuyoni is not the one which expresses the plurality of individuals. It expresses the singular number of the universal according to P. 1. 2. 58.]