Book Title: Interpreting Vakyapadiya Historically
Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: Ashok Aklujkar

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________________ 592 THE ADYAR LIBRARY BULLETIN least force us into any intellectual acrobatics or assumption of unexpressed distinctions. Besides, although I have so far been able to find only one, 14 many sentences showing the influence of intervening expressions on constructions of the type āgamo labdhvā bahu-śākhatvam nitaḥ may be found in Sanskrit literature. If they are found, then the only problem with the wording of 486 will be the use of the word āgama when it could have been contextually understood. As pointed out in 2.3 above, this is hardly a serious problem. The greatest merit of solution (a), however, is that it leaves room for answering question (a) in 1.2 above in a commonsensical way. 3.1 Given the background that verses 481-485 provide and the result (bahu-śākhatvam nītaḥ) that 486 speaks of, what could Candrācārya and others be understood as having done or gone through? It is quite clear that in their days the Mahābhāsya-related vyākaraņāgama had ceased to be a true āgama and was, at least according to the text we have, preserved only in a remote 14 This is Samkara, Tattvopadeśa verse 66 (Minor Works of Sri Samkarācārya, Poona Oriental Series No. 8, ed. H.R. Bhagavat, 2nd edn., 1952, p. 24): advayānanda-rūpāt tvām pracyāvyātīva dhūrtakaiḥ| dūra-nito 'si dehesu samsārāranya-bhūmişull Having dislodged you thoroughly (ativa) from a form consisting of bliss of non-duality, the rogues have led you far in [the region of] bodies, the jungle land of transmigration. Here the construction dhürtakais tvām pracyāvya [tvam] dūra-nito 'si is similar to candrācāryādibhir āgamam labdhvā sa bahu-sākhatvam nitaḥ, unless, of course, the reading tdām can be proved to be a corruption of tvam. As an instance of the need felt that a pronoun be used to refer to an intervened subject or object, note Patañjali on Pratyāhāra-sutra 1 (Kielhorn's cdn., vol. I, p. 18): loka rși-sahastam ekām kapilám ekaikaśaḥ sahasrakstvo dattvā tayā sarve te sahasra-dakşiņāḥ sampannāḥ. dehest from a form the regiontruction dhürlening

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