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 3.14.104
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.104:
सङ्खयासामान्यरूपेण तदा सोंऽशः प्रतीयते ।
अर्थस्यानेकशक्तित्वे शब्दैर्नियतशक्तिभिः ॥ १०४ ॥saṅkhayāsāmānyarūpeṇa tadā soṃ'śaḥ pratīyate |
arthasyānekaśaktitve śabdairniyataśaktibhiḥ || 104 ||104. Through the words whose powers are restricted even though meaning has many powers, that part (that is, the meaning of the first constituent) is understood as meaning in general.
Commentary
[The meaning of the secondary constituent of a compound being in the nature of sattva, it is potentially capable of being associated with all numbers but it is not actually linked with any particular number. Words have a limited scope and do not always denote all their possible meanings.]