Bhattoji Diksita On Sphota

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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varņā väcaka na veti vipratipattiśarīram). For Nägesa, then, this statement deals with a minor issue within the discussion of the varnasphota. 15 Bhattoji Dīksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 9 1.14–16: yady apihāstau paksā uktās tathāpi vāk yasphotapakse tātparyam granthakstām / tatrāpi jātisphote ily avadhe yam, purvapūrvopamardenaivottarottaropanyäsāt/. 14 Cp. Joshi's observations cited in note 2, above. " It has already been pointed out above that Bhattoji's emphasis on the semantic role of the sphota is responsible for his negligence of the ontological side. This has confused also modern commentators. John Brough has already been mentioned. As for Gaurinath Sastri, see note 17 below. 16 Iyer, 1966: 9–10: naitat sāram, pratyekam apratyāyakatvāt, sāhityābhāvāt, niyatakramavartinām ayaugapadyena sambhūyakäritvānupapatteh, ... " Nor was Gaurinath Sastri, who states (1980: 72-73): "we should like to point out that we do not appreciate their i.e., of the later standard works of Sanskrit grammarians, JB) conception of pada-sphota and vāk ya-sphota as also of akhanda-padasphota and akhanda-vāk ya-sphota. ... (Alny interpretation which tends to impair the indivisible character of sphota, cannot be accepted by us. It may be pointed out in our favour that the earlier exponents of the theory of sphota mean by pada-sphota and vākya-sphota what to the later exponents are akhanda-pada-sphota and akhandavāk ya-sphota respectively." 18 For further evidence for the unitary nature of Patanjali's morphemes and words, see Bronkhorst, 1987: 46 ff. 19 Mahā-bh I p. 267 1.8-12: kim ihodaharanam / ... / tasthasthamipām tāmtamtāmah iti / nanu caitad api sthāne 'ntaratamenaiva siddham / kuta antaryam / ekārthas yaikārtho dvyarthasya dvyartho bahvarthasya bahvartho bhavisyatiti / 20 Tr. Sharma, 1995: 660. 21 Tr. Joshi & Roodbergen, 1991: 66. 22 Bhattoji Dīksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) 1 p.8 1.19-20: padasphotavākyasphotau tu ihaiva praghattake yenoccăritena' iti bhāsyapratīkam upādāya kaiyatena bhāsyārthatayā varnitau / 23 Kaiyata I p. 7: vaiyakaranā varņavyatiriktasya padasya väik yasya vā vācakat vam icchanti/ varnānām pratyekam vācakatve dvitīyādivarnoccāraṇānarthak yaprasangātānarthakye tu pratyekam utpattipakse yaugapadyenotpattyabhāvāt, abhivyaktipakse tu kramenaivābhivyaktyā samudāyābhāvāt / ekasmrtyupārūdhānām vācakatve 'sarah' 'rasah' ityādāv arthapratipattyavisesaprasangāt tadvyatiriktah sphoto nādabhivyangyo vācako vistarena vākyapadiye vyavasthäpitah/ 24 Bhattoji Dīksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 8 1. 20-21: varņavyatiriktasya padas ya vāk yasya veti vadatā tayor akhandatäpy uktā /. 29 Bhattoji Dīksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p.8 1.21--23: 'nityesu śabdesu kūtasthair avicālibhir varnair bhavitavyam' iti tatra tatra bhāsye sakhandatoktā /. The quoted line occurs Maha-bh I p. 18 1.14-15 (on Sivasūtra 1 vt. 12); p. 75 1.8-9 (on P. 1.1.20 vt. 5); p. 112 1. 24 (on P. 1.1.46); p. 136 1.12-13 (on P. 1.1.56 vt. 11); etc. 26 Bhattoji Dīksita, Sabdakaustubha (ed. Nene et al.) I p. 8 1.26-32: paspaśāyām eva praghattakāntare 'kim punahityādi bhāsyam upādāya 'kecid varnasphotam apare padasphotam vāk yasphotam cāhuh' iti vadatā kaiyatena 'a i unity atra vyaktisphotajātisphotayor balābalam cintayatā prayāhārāhnikānte 'aksaram na ksaram vidyāt' iti bhāsyavyākhyānāvasare vyavahāranit yatā tu varnapadavāk yasphotānām, nityat vam tu jātisphotasyeti pratipadayatā, anupadam eva brahmatattvam eva hi śabdarüpatayā pratibhätity artha iti vyācaksanena sarve paksäh sūcitā eva /. 27 Kaiyata on kim punar nityah sabdah āhosvit kāryah, Paspaśāhnika, I p. 26. 28 Kaiyata, I p. 65 ff., esp. p. 68 (vyaktisphotapakse nirākrte jātisphotapaksa evāśrīyate) and p. 69 (avaśyāśranīyatām ākrtipaksasya darśayati).