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 3.3.44
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.44:
啶膏い啷� 啶灌た 啶椸え啷嵿い啷佮ぐ啷嵿啶え啶� 啶膏い啶� 啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啷� 啶啶班さ啶班啶むい啷� 啷�
啶椸え啷嵿い啷冟さ啶氞啶氞啶ㄠ啶� 啶溹え啷嵿ぎ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啷� 啶氞啶む啶むう啷嵿さ啶ㄠ啶� 啶溹ぞ啶い啷� 啷� 啷オ 啷�sato hi ganturgamana峁� sati gamye pravartate |
gant峁泇accenna janm膩rtho cettadvanna j膩yate || 44 ||44. If the go-er exists and if there is a destination, the going can take place. If the one who is born is like the go-er, he cannot be born at all. If he is not, there cannot be birth at all.
Commentary
[The act of going is like that of being born. Only that which already exists can go, provided that there is a destination as distinct from that which goes. But if one who takes birth already exists like the one who goes, he cannot be born at all. Secondly, as birth means 鈥榓ttaining one鈥檚 self鈥�, there is no object as distinct from the agent as in the case of going. These are the difficulties if words are taken as denoting things having external Being.]
It is now stated that the difficulties are removed on the basis of secondary Being.