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 3.14.38
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.38:
वृत्तिरन्यपदार्थे या तस्या वाक्येष्वसंभवः ।
चार्थे द्वन्द्वपदानां च भेदे वृत्तिर्न विद्यते ॥ ३८ ॥vṛttiranyapadārthe yā tasyā vākyeṣvasaṃbhavaḥ |
cārthe dvandvapadānāṃ ca bhede vṛttirna vidyate || 38 ||38. Standing for the meaning of another word (anyapadārtha which takes place in a bahuvrīhi compound) is impossible in a sentence. Similarly words which form the constituents of a dvandva cannot express the meaning of ‘ca’ in a sentence.
Commentary
[When two or more words combine to form a bahuvrīhi compound, the latter expresses the meaning of a word which is not part of the compound. In the sentence which analyses this compound, the same words cannot do that, because that other word itself is present in it. Similarly, dvandva compound expresses the meaning of ca which is not part of the compound. But its constituents in the analytic sentence cannot do that because the word ca itself is present in it.]