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 3.14.596
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.596:
यथा समूहप्रचये द्विगूनां भिन्नसंख्यता ।
पञ्चपूल्यादिषु तथा सुबन्तप्रचये भवेत् ॥ ५९६ ॥yathā samūhapracaye dvigūnāṃ bhinnasaṃkhyatā |
pañcapūlyādiṣu tathā subantapracaye bhavet || 596 ||596. Just as a word expressive of several dvigu words like pañcapūlī gets the plural number (pañcapūlyaḥ) in the same way, when there is a plurality of words ending in a sup suffix, there is plural number.
Commentary
[Here it might be said that even when ekaśeṣa takes place according to P. 1.2.64 it is the meaning of the elided suffix (kan) which attains plurality and so P. 1.2.51 should apply. This is explained by means of an analogy. We have the expression pañca pūlāḥ samāhṛtāḥ pañcapūlī = five bundles collected together are called pañcapūlī. This is a dvigu compound and it is in the singular number according to P. 2.4.1. But when we want to refer to several such collections, we get the expression pañcapūlī ca pañcapūlī ca pañcapūlī ceti pañcapūlyaḥ, according to P. 1.2.64. This plural number cannot be set aside by P. 2.4.1. Pañcapūlī is a dvigu but not pañcapūlyaḥ which is ekaśeṣa of several pañcapūlī words. An ekaśeṣa is different from dvigu and so P. 2.4.1. does not apply to the former. Similarly, an ekaśeṣa of several lubanta words is not a lubanta word. So P. 1.2.51 cannot apply to such an ekaśeṣa.]