https://sarit.indology.info/nyayamanjari.xml?root=1.4.3.23.17.15.310.13&odd=sarit.odd&view=page

विखर इति देहेन्द्रियसङ्घात
उच्यते । तत्र भवा वैखरी । 

Nyayasūtra

II.157 विवर्तते832 । न तु वाचकाद्विभक्तं वाच्यमपि नाम किंचिदस्ति । तस्मात्
काल्पनिक एव वाच्यवाचकविभागोऽयमविद्यैव 833विद्योपाय इत्या
श्रीयते । वाग्रूपता तत्त्वम्, सर्वत्र 834प्रत्यये तदनपायात् । यथोक्तम
वाक्य-1-125


वाग्र्पता चेदुत्क्रामेदवबोधस्य शाश्वती ।

835न प्रकाशः प्रकाशेत सा हि प्रत्यवमर्शिनी इति ॥


https://jainqq.org/explore/010134/48

विखर एक प्राणाश है, उससे प्रेरित होने के कारण भी इस वाणी को वैखरी कहा जाता है।



On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 6:30 AM Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Hi Jim,

The older Vedic references to चत्वारि वाक् परिमिता पदानि have been continuously reinterpreted. चत्वारि पदजातानि नामाख्यातोपसर्गनिपाता: is an explanation that we see in pre-Bhartr̥hari sources. With Bhartr̥hari begins the expansion into पश्यन्ती, मध्यमा and वैखरी to which परा gets added at some point. You have raised an interesting question about the origin of the word वैखरी, if it is a Sanskritized Prakrit word.  The Sanskrit verb विकिरति seems to appear as बिखरना in Hindi and विखरणे in Marathi. I don't know how far back in Prakrit this can be attested. But looking at the word वैखरी, I would not be surprised if it has a Prakrit origin.

Madhav
 
Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
Adjunct Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India

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On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 5:12 PM Jim Ryan via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Hi,

I’m curious about the term Vaikharī for articulated speech. In the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies volume on the Grammarians, judging from the index, it seems this term was first used  by Bhartṛhari (at least in a grammatical context.) V. S. Apte cites the Mallinatha commentary on Kumārasaṃbhava for an authoritative reference of the word, but that is quite late (15th century.) Firstly, are there instances of this word used with any frequency before Bhartṛhari? Secondly, the lexicons give no good verbal root or root word for it. I note that the word vaikṛtī as “alteration” has a similar shape (and wouldn’t fit badly in the “articulated speech” category of Vāc), but I’m presuming that the word  vaikharī is not a Prakrit-derived form.  So… where and how do we get to this important term in language theory in India, which seems unrelated to any other common root or word?

Jim Ryan
Asian Philosophies and Cultures (Emeritus)
California Institute of Integral Studies

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