Dear Colleagues,
An input by N R Joshi in USA and some comments by scholars thereto in the site of Bharatiiya Vidvat Parishad has made me think on this fundamental issue.Sri Aurobindo i know provides the brightest clue so far after the Tantras in this regard.
This is a moot question regarding the smallest components in a sentence,viz.letters as to whether at this level some semantic content could be made out.Or that these are the merely the scaffolding and the sentence is entirely independent as perhaps implied by Bhartrihari in his celebrated Vaakyapadiiya at "pade varnaa na vidyante" etc.in the first kaanda.I think Bhartrihari is only partially justified if he tells this in a relative vein.But in absolute sense this is not true that like words having no independent meaning in a sentence,letters also do have no significative value.I have contested this in my blog in Sanskrit "surendrashastram.blogspot.com .
I shall be obliged for more enlightening explanation.
Vidushah pranipatya,
Surendramohan Mishra
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भिन्नप्रवृत्तिनिमित्तानाम/ विभिन्न पदानाम/ एकस्मिन/ अर्थे तात्पर्यं समानाधिकरणलक्षणम/ From this standpoint, perhaps it can be accepted,as you have rightly remarked,that "I think Bhartrihari is only partially justified if he tells this in a relative vein."
ReplyDeletePranams.
Thanks for comments.The much adumbrated akhanda-vaakya-sphota is only an amalgam and sensing the presence of 'akhandatva'therein could be only a partially holding conviction that seems to be stretched too far to score a point.Regards.Surendra.
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