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 3.14.145
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.145:
यदा तु व्यपदिश्येते लिङ्गसंख्ये स्वभावतः ।
प्रयोगेष्वेव साधुत्वं वाक्ये प्रक्रम्यते तदा ॥ १४५ ॥yadā tu vyapadiśyete liṅgasaṃkhye svabhāvataḥ |
prayogeṣveva sādhutvaṃ vākye prakramyate tadā || 145 ||145. When the gender and number of a word are declared to be natural, then the correct form (of a word) is determined considering the other words which are to be used in a sentence.
Commentary
[So far P. 1.2.52 has been explained and justified. But Pānini himself has declared it to be unnecessary (P. 1.2.53). In other words, he has declared it to be natural that adjectives should take the gender and number of the word which they, qualify. A word gets its gender and number in view of the other word in the sentence with which it is going to be connected. This is the essence of the vākyāvadhikam anvākhyānam. The formation of a word takes into account the other words in the sentence and no distinction is made between antaraṅga and bahiraṅga factors, because from the very beginning the speaker knows with what other word a word is going to be connected and forms it accordingly.]