Studies On Bhartrhari

SR No.: 269568
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst
Total Pages: 17
Language: English
Classification: Article
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Bhartshari and Mîmāmsā
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citing the sentence that precedes şaờvimšatir. This remark - tathāvyayam anekasmin pasau dvir abhyasyate - can be interpreted with the help of MÁS 5.2.9.5 yāny avyayany anekāni tāni dvir abhyasyante ... şaqvimšatiḥ şaờvimsatin. It thus comes to mean: "Then, in case there is more than one animal, the indeclinable [that follows, viz. şadviméatih) is repeated."
Unlike Sabara, parts of Bhartshari's treatment of üha show the influence of the Mānava Srauta Sūtra. We saw how MŚS 5.2.9.5 was needed to understand one of Bhartshari's remarks. At two other occasions he makes a direct reference to the section on modification' (ühaprakarana) of the Mānava Srauta Sūtra. Once (AL 7.5-6; Sw 8.11-12; Ms 2d 10-11; CE I 6.6-8) he says:
aghasad aghastām aghasannagrabhişur akşannity ühaprakaraṇe pathyate "In the section on modification the forms aghasat, aghastām, aghasan,
agrabhişun and akşan are read." This must refer to MŚS 5.2.9.6:
havişi praişe sūktavāke ca adat adatām adan, ghasat ghastām ghasan, aghasat aghastām aghasan, karat karatām karan, aghrabhit aghrabhiştām
agrabhişuh, akşan Then again (AL 7.20-21; Sw 9.3-4; Ms 3a 8-9; CE I 6.21-22):
tatrohaprakarana evaişam mātā pitā bhrātā sanābhisamsargi sabda ity evamādiny anuhyānity pathyate
"... in the same section on modification it is read that of the words mentioned earlier] the words indicative of siblings and kin mātā, pitā, bhrātā and the like should not be modified."
This reflects MŚS 5.2.9.7:
mātā pitā bhrātā sagarbhyo'nu) sakha sayūthyo nābhirupam asamsargi sabdās cakşuh srotram van manas tvan medo havir barnih Syenam vakşa ity anūhyam
""His mother, his father, his brother from the same womb, his friend in the herd'; the form of nābhi joined with (the ending) a; the words 'eye, ear, voice, mind, skin, fat, oblation (?), sacrificial grass, eagle-shaped breast', all these are not to be modified." (tr. Van Gelder, p. 174)