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 3.14.285
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.285:
एकत्वयोगमासज्य स धर्मः प्रतिषिध्यते ।
द्व्यादिभ्यस्तेषु तच्छब्दो वर्तते ब्राह्मणादिवत् ॥ २८५ ॥ekatvayogamāsajya sa dharmaḥ pratiṣidhyate |
dvyādibhyasteṣu tacchabdo vartate brāhmaṇādivat || 285 ||285. After having superimposed unity, it is removed from two, etc. That word eka stands for them (two etc.) as the word brāhmaṇa stands for kṣattriya, etc.
Commentary
[What the negative particle in aneka sets aside is the unity superimposed on two, etc. If the word eka were not there what would the negative particle set aside?]