[INDOLOGY] New article on Sanskrit

Roland Steiner steiner at staff.uni-marburg.de
Sun Sep 18 22:09:16 UTC 2016


> The entire article can be briefly summarized in Sanskrit by  
> referring to the view of Bhartrhari
> prajñā vivekaṁ labhate bhinnair āgama-darśanaiḥ |
> kiyad vā śakyam unnetuṁ svatarkam anudhāvatā ||
> (view of Bhartrhari as formulated probably by his student: note, in  
> addition to other arguments, the exceptional and unnecessary  
> metrical clumsiness in pāda a ;

It is not metrically clumsy; prajñā vivekaṃ labhate forms a regular  
bha-vipulā (structure ra-bha with regard to syllables 2-7:  
long-short-long-long-short-long).

Best wishes,
Roland








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