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Vākyapadīya

Text Type

• Treatise
  A type of text

Text Passages

• VP 2.187–91
  From the text: Vākyapadīya
• VP 2.192
  From the text: Vākyapadīya
• VP 2.194
  From the text: Vākyapadīya
• VP 3.7.21
  From the text: Vākyapadīya
• VP 3.7.45–46
  From the text: Vākyapadīya

References

• Abhyankar, K.V. and V.P. Limaye (eds.) (1965), Vākyapadīya. Poona: University of Poona.
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• Biardeau, Madeleine (ed.) (1964), Vākyapadīya Brahmakāṇḍa. Avec la Vṛtti de Harivṛṣabha. Text reproduit de l’Édition de Lahore. Paris: Éditions E. de Boccard.
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• Iyer, K.A. Subramania (1969), Bhartṛhari. A study of the Vākyapadīya in the light of the ancient commentaries. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute.
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• Iyer, K.A. Subramania (ed.) (1963), Vākyapadīya with the commentary of Helārāja. Kāṇḍa 3 Part 1. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute.
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• Iyer, K.A. Subramania (ed.) (1966), Vākyapadīya with the Vṛtti and the Paddhati of Vṛṣabhadeva. Poona: Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute.
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• Iyer, K.A. Subramania (ed.) (1973), Vākyapadīya with the Prakīrṇakaprakāśa of Helārāja. Kāṇḍa 3 Part 2. Poona: Deccan College.
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• Iyer, K.A. Subramania (ed.) (1983), Vākyapadīya. Containing the Ṭīkā of Puṇyarāja and the ancient Vṛtti. Kāṇda 2. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
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• Rau, Wilhelm (ed.) (1977), Bhartṛharis Vākyapadīya. Die Mūlakārikās nach den Handschriften herausgegeben und mit einem Pāda-Index versehen. Wiesbaden: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.
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Linguistic Notions

• Lexical vs Functional Categories
  1. Introduction The distinction between lexical and functional categories is a well-known one in Western linguistics. It is both long-standing (possibly dating back...
• Objecthood
  1. Introduction Like the closely related notion of 'subject', the notion of 'object' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, and in modern Western linguistics 'object',...
• Subjecthood
  1 Introduction The notion 'subject' is an ancient one in the Western linguistic tradition, going back to at least Aristotle. In modern Western linguistics, the notion of 'subject' rema...

Texts

• Paddhati
  The Paddhati of Vṛṣabhadeva (a.k.a. Harivṛṣabha) is a commentary on the first book of the Vākyapadīya.
• Prakīrṇaprakāśa
  Helārāja's Prakīrṇaprakāśa is a commentary on the third book of the Vākyapadīya.
• Ṭīkā
  Puṇyarāja's Ṭīkā is a commentary on the second book of the Vākyapadīya.

Authors

• Bhartṛhari
  Bhartṛhari's most famous work is the Vākyapadīya. He also wrote the Mahābhāṣyadīpikā, the oldest partially extant commentary on the Mahābhāṣya. Some also consider Bhartṛhari to be the author of a t...
• Helārāja
  Helārāja was possibly from Kashmir and a contemporary of Abhinavagupta.
• Puṇyarāja
  Puṇyarāja was the author of a commentary (Ṭīkā) on the Vākyapadīya.
• Vṛṣabhadeva
  Vṛṣabhadeva (a.k.a. Harivṛṣabha) was patronised by king Viṣṇugupta.

Linguistic Traditions

• Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa
  Pāṇinīya vyākaraṇa (Pāṇinian grammar) refers to the Sanskrit grammatical tradition including and based on Pāṇini's grammar the Aṣṭādhyāyī (c. 400 BC). The Aṣṭādhyāyī...