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 2.451
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.451:
सकृच्छ्रुता सप्तदशस्वनावृत्तापि या क्रिया ।
प्राजापत्येषु सामर्थ्यात् सा भेदं प्रतिपद्यते ॥ ४५१ ॥sakṛcchrutā saptadaśasvanāvṛttāpi yā kriyā |
prājāpatyeṣu sāmarthyāt sā bhedaṃ pratipadyate || 451 ||451. The action in regard to the seventeen prājāpatya animals, though mentioned only once and not repeated, becomes diversified because of the nature of things.
Commentary
[By sāmarthyāt, what is meant is that, as there are seventeen different animals, the same action necessarily becomes diversified, though the word denoting the action is not repeated.]