Article,
Approaching the Vākyapadīya: Review of The Saṃbandha-Samuddeśa (Chapter on Relation) and Bhartṛhari's Philosophy of Language: A Study of Bhartṛhari's Saṃbandha-Samuddeśa in the Context of the Vākyapadīya with a Translation of Helārāja's Commentary, Prakīrṇa-Prakāśa Jan E. M. Houben
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 119 (1): 88--125 (1999)
Abstract
In connection with a recent work on the Sambandhasamuddeśa of the
Vākyapadiya, I consider some major issues concerning Bhartṛhari,
the tradition he represents, and how a modern scholar Vākyapadīya.
I discuss theoretical principles which have been set forth as a basis
might approach the Vākyapadīya in connection with these principles,
for dealing with Bhartṛhari and evidence from the chiefly what is
referred to as Bhartṛhari's perspectivism. I take up in some detail
one large issue: the iisfa, who use status of the received high language,
associated with a group of model speakers called speech forms characterized
as "correct" (sādhu) linguistic units (Sabda) opposed to incorrect
lin- (asādhuśabda, apaśabda), that are viewed as corruptions (apabhramia),with
respect to guistic units how meanings are understood by users. The
principal issue here is: do apaśabdas directly signify meanings for
Sistas when they communicate with someone using a vernacular, or
do these speakers esort to a translation technique such that the
apaśabda used calls to mind a sadhuśabda, which then directly signifies
a meaning? This topic also involves another important question: how
one should consider the Vrtti and other commentaries in relation
to what is said in the karika text.
