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 3.14.209
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.209:
एकश्च द्वयात्मकोऽर्थोऽसौ भेदाभेदसमन्वितः ।
यौ भेदावाश्रितस्तत्स्थे लिङ्गसङ्खये प्रपद्यते ॥ २०९ ॥ekaśca dvayātmako'rtho'sau bhedābhedasamanvitaḥ |
yau bhedāvāśritastatsthe liṅgasaṅkhaye prapadyate || 209 ||209. The meaning of a dvandva has a double character, consisting of difference and identity. It takes on the gender and number of the parts on which it rests.
Commentary
[This whole or group has a double character. It is understood as identical with the parts and in that sense, it is differentiated (bhinnaḥ). It is also the object of a single cognition and in that sense, it is abhinna, one and undifferentiated. What is conveyed by each word distinctly is the substratum and the whole takes the gender and number of the parts conveyed by the constituent words.]
Following the reverse order of the topics mentioned in verse 158, the use of the extension of gender and number taught in P. 1.2.51 and 1.2.53. fora bahuvrīhi compound is now going to be considered.