Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari
by K. A. Subramania Iyer | 1965 | 391,768 words
The English translation of the Vakyapadiya by Bhartrihari including commentary extracts and notes. The Vakyapadiya is an ancient Sanskrit text dealing with the philosophy of language. Bhartrhari authored this book in three parts and propounds his theory of Sphotavada (sphota-vada) which understands language as consisting of bursts of sounds conveyi...
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Verse 3.2.15
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.2.15:
啶掂た啶曕ぞ啶班ぞ啶啶 啶膏い啷嵿く啶� 啶膏啶掂ぐ啷嵿ぃ啶� 啶曕啶｀啶∴げ啷� 啶ぅ啶� 啷�
啶掂た啶曕ぞ啶班ぞ啶啶 啶膏い啷嵿く啶距 啶むぅ啶距す啷佮 啶啶班啷冟い啶苦 啶ぐ啶距ぎ啷� 啷� 啷оカ 啷�vik膩r膩pagame satya峁� suvar峁嘺峁� ku峁囜笉ale yath膩 |
vik膩r膩pagame saty膩峁� tath膩hu岣� prak峁泃i峁� par膩m || 15 ||15. Just as, when forms disappear, it is the gold which is the truth (satya) in the ear-ring etc., in the same way, when transformations (like earth etc.) disappear, the primordial substance is the only thing which is real.
Commentary
The author now shows that when all the appearances disappear, something unchangeable does remain.
[Read verse 15 above]
[That which persists when all the forms disappear has been declared to be real. But somebody might ask whether something does persist at all. In answer, it is said that when forms such as ear-ring (办耻峁囜笉补濒补) disappear, the gold remains. Similarly, when forms such as earth disappear, primordial substance, that is, Brahman, remains. For this, the authority is the written tradition (腻驳补尘补). It would not be right to say that all this universe proceeds from something which is non-existent and inexpressible. Non-existence cannot produce existence. Nothing can come out of hare鈥檚 horn. Consciousness persists in everything. Therefore, everything originally came out of it.]
The author now concludes by saying that all words express that.鈥擺Read next verse]