Concordance of the Mūlakārikās of Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya, Brahmakāṇḍa

July 3, 2019 (modified July 10, 2023)

I have prepared a concordance of the mūlakārikās of the first chapter of Bhartṛhari’s Vākyapadīya, among the following editions and studies:

Wilhelm Rau, ed. Bhatṛharis Vākyapadīya. Die Mūlakārikās nach den Handschriften herausgegeben und mit einem Pāda-index versehen. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 42.4. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1977.
K. A. Subramania Iyer, ed. Vākyapadīya of Bhartṛhari with the Vṛtti and the Paddhati of Vṛṣabhadeva. Kāṇḍa I. Deccan College Monograph Series 2. Poona: Deccan College, Postgraduate and Research Institute, 1966.
Madeleine Biardeau, trans. Bhartṛhari. Vākyapadīya Brahmakāṇḍa. Avec la Vṛtti de Harivṛṣabha. Texte reproduit de l’édition de Lahore. Publications de l’Institut de civilisation indienne 24. Paris: Éditions E. De Boccard, 1964.
Cārudeva Śāstrī, ed. Vākyapadīyam. Prathamaṃ Kāṇḍam. Lahore: Ram Lal Kapoor Trust Society, 1935.
Gaṅgādhara Śāstrī Mānavallī, ed. Vākyapadīya. A Treatise on the Philosophy of Sanskrit Grammar by Bhartṛhari, with a Commentary by Puṇyarāja. Benares Sanskrit Series 11, 19, 24. Benares: Messrs. Braj B. Das & Co., 1887.
Ashok Aklujkar. “The Number of Kārikās in Trikāṇḍī, Book I”. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 91.4 (Oct.–Dec. 1971), pp. 510–513.

You can download the concordance as a PDF file here. BibLaTeX entries for each edition are available here.

The data I used to produce the concordance table is available as an archive here. It might be useful if you want to produce your own table or to create a search interface. The archive contains a set of files in CSV format, one for each edition. Each file includes five fields, as follows:

#	Field name	Description
0	id	The number of the stanza in Rau’s edition. This value can be used as a stanza identifier to map the editions together.
1	number	The number of the stanza in this edition (a strictly positive integer). For Rau’s edition, this holds the same value as the “id” field.
2	location	A boolean that indicates whether, in this edition, the stanza is located in the mūla text or in the vṛtti. If it is located in the mūla text, holds the integer 0, otherwise 1. For Rau’s edition, this field always holds the value 0.
3	start-page	Number of the page on which the kārikā starts (a strictly positive integer).
4	end-page	Number of the page on which the kārikā ends. If the kārikā fits on a single page, holds the same value as the “start-page” field.