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 3.14.382
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.382:
शस्त्रीं स्वेन गुणेनातो मिमानामाश्रयमान्तरम् ।
असमाप्तगुणं सिद्धेरुपमानं प्रचक्षते ॥ ३८२ ॥śastrīṃ svena guṇenāto mimānāmāśrayamāntaram |
asamāptaguṇaṃ siddherupamānaṃ pracakṣate || 382 ||382. One calls the śastrī which, because of the completeness of its quality, measures another substratum whose quality is incomplete, a secondary measure (upamāna).
Commentary
[The śastrī, which through its full darkness, determines another substratum, namely, Devadattā, whose darkness is incomplete, is called a secondary measure (upamāna).]
The attribute is usually mentioned as existing in the upamāna or in the upameya, but not in both. How is it then the common property?