Studies On Bhartrhari

Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Johannes Bronkhorst

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Johannes Bronkhorst
Studies on Bhartshari, 2.
Bhartshari and Mîmāmsāk
1.1. Both Bhartshari and Sabara pay a good deal of attention to the subject
of üha 'modification, adjustment'. Bhartshari discusses it in the first Ahnika of his commentary on the Mahābhāşya (AL 5.18-8.17, Sw 6.179.27, Ms 2b9-3c1), while parts of Adhyāya 9 of Sabara's Bhāşya deal with it. Two cases in particular are treated by both the authors and allow of a detailed comparison.
The first case is most easily introduced with the help of Sabara's Bhāșya on Pūrva Mīmāņsā Sūtra 9.3.10:
asti pasur agnisomiyah, yo dikşito yad agnişomiyam pagum alabhata iti / tatra pāśaikatvábhidhāyi mantrah, aditih pašam pramumoktv etam iti / tathā pasabahutvābhidhāyi, aditiņ pāśān pramumoktu etān iti / .../ asti dvipasur vikrtiḥ / maitram svetam alabheta, vārunam krenam apām causadhinām ca samdhāvannakāma iti / tatra codakena pāsābhidhayinau mantrau prāptau / tayoḥ samsayah / kim bahuvacananto'vikārena pravartate, ekavacanantasya nivịttiḥ, uta bahuvacanănto nivartate, ekavacanānta uhitavyaḥ, utobhayor api pravrttir abhidhänavipratipattis ca, utaikavacananta uhitavyo bahuvacanānto'pi na nivarteta / kim prāptam / "There is the Agniștomiya animal (sacrifice) laid down in the text yo dikșito yad agnişomiyam pasum alabhate ('When one, being initiated, sacrifices the animal dedicated to Agni-Soma'). In connection with this there is a mantra, speaking of the singleness of the noose (pasa): aditiņ pašam pramumoktu etam (May Aditi loosen this noose'); also [there is another mantra] speaking of the plurality of the noose: aditiņ pasan pramumoktu etān. ... [Then again, ] there is a modificatory sacrifice (vikrti) [of the Agnișomiya] at which two animals [are killed], laid down in the text
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This article was written with the financial assistance of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (N.W.0.).