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 3.14.206
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.206:
समुच्चयवतोऽर्थस्य वाचको नानुवर्तते ।
निमित्तमपि चास्यार्थः स्वधर्मैर्युज्यते ततः ॥ २०६ ॥samuccayavato'rthasya vācako nānuvartate |
nimittamapi cāsyārthaḥ svadharmairyujyate tataḥ || 206 ||206. A word (like samuccita) expressive of that which has collection (as its attribute) does not
follow the basis (nimitta). And, therefore, its meaning is endowed with its own properties.
Commentary
[An analogy is now given. It is not only the dvandva which does not follow the nimitta. The word samuccita is known to be expressive of a meaning of which samuccaya is the upādhi or nimitta (basis of formation) and yet it does not follow it as far as gender and number are concerned. A dvandva should do it still less, because it is an error to look upon samuccaya as its nimitta. One can say that the word śukla follows the nimitta because from it we understand the nimittin (a white object) hidden by the nimitta, the white colour. In samuccita, on the other hand, something which is merely qualified by an external nimitta is understood. That is the force of the suffix matup in samuccayavataḥ. As the word samuccita does not follow the nimitta which is different from and external to it, it has the gender and number of its own meaning. This is what happens in dvandva also.]