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 3.14.416
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.416:
भेदभावनयैतच्च समासेऽप्युपवर्ण्यते ।
विशिष्टगुणभिन्नेऽर्थे पदमन्यत् प्रयुज्यते ॥ ४१६ ॥bhedabhāvanayaitacca samāse'pyupavarṇyate |
viśiṣṭaguṇabhinne'rthe padamanyat prayujyate || 416 ||416. Due to the persisting impression (bhāvanā) of diversity, it is attributed to the compound also. (In reality), the compound is a totally different word and denotes an object qualified by a quality differentiated (by the standard of comparison).
Commentary
[Thus the view that the word expressive of the common property refers to the standard of comparison has been considered in many ways. If we take it as referring to the standard of comparison, we get one kind of analytic sentence. If we take it, as referring to the object of comparison, we get another analytic sentence. The impression of this diversity in the analytic sentence persists and one thinks that the analytic sentence and the compound have the same meaning and attributes this diversity to the compound also. In reality, the compound is a different kind of word altogether. It is indivisible and denotes the object of comparison, qualified by darkness as distinguished by the standard of comparison.]
Now M. Bhā. I. p. 397, 1. 22-23, is going to be explained.