Studies On Bhartrhari

SR No.: 269568
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst
Total Pages: 17
Language: English
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Bhartphari and Mîmāmsā
probably viprapravrttatvāt which is absent from the sūtra.
The following quotation in the Dipikā seems to throw more light on Bhartshari's relationship with Mimāņsā. In the third Ahnika Bhartshari proclaims (AL 96.3-4; Sw 113.14-15; Ms 31b4-5; CE III.3.19-20):
nanantaryam sambandhahetuḥ / evam hy ucyate / arthato hy asamarthänām anantaryam akaranam/
"[Mere] contiguity is no cause of relationship. Thus, verily, it is said: "contiguity is no cause of relationship between [words] which
are not semantically connected'." The quotation in this passage had to be reconstructed to some extent, and this could be done with the help of PMS 4.3.11 (api vāmnānasamarthyāc codanarthena gamyetarthanam hy arthavattvena vacanāni pratiyante'rthato hy asamarthänām anantarye 'py asambandhas tasmacchrutyekadesaḥ sah), as pointed out by Palsule (Notes. p. 66 of his edition; cf. Swaminathan, 1961: 314). What is more, the quoted line occurs in precisely that form in a verse cited in Vaidyanātha's Chāyā (p. 160, 162) and which reads:
yasya yenābhisambandho/-ärthasambandho dūrasthasyäpi tena saḥ / artha
to hy asamarthänām ānantaryam akāranam // This suggests that Bhartshari knew a Mimāņsā work which contained verse.
This impression is strengthened by another quotation in the Mahābhāşya Dipikā, on P. 1.1.46, in the context of sequential order. Here Bhartshari cites the following verse (AL 274.1-2; Ms 95b1-2):
Sruter arthăc ca păthăc ca pravșttes ca manişinah / sthānan mukhyāc ca dharmāņām āhuḥ kramavidaḥ kraman // "Those sages who know about sequential order say that the sequential order of things (?) [is determined) on the basis of scriptural assertion, meaning, [order of] text, commencement, place and [order of] the
principal." This verse is close to PMS 5.1.1-15, as already observed by Swaminathan (1961: 317). All its elements occur there: sruti in PMS 5.1.1 (Srutilakşaņam anupūrvyam tatpramāṇatvāt), artha in 5.1.2 (arthāc ca), pātha is the
6. Bhartshari's example of Sruti is hrdayasyägre 'vadyati, atha jinvāyah,
atha vakşasah. The same example is given by Sabara under PMS 5.1.5.