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 3.3.64
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.64:
啶むじ啷嵿ぎ啶距え啷嵿え啶距き啶距さ啶た啶氞啶涏え啷嵿い啶� 啶 啶侧啶曕 啶ぞ啶掂さ啶距う啶苦え啶� 啷�
啶呧き啶距さ啶掂ぞ啶︵た啶ㄠ 啶掂ぞ啶た 啶� 啶ぞ啶掂 啶むい啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶侧啷嵿し啶｀ぎ啷� 啷� 啷オ 啷�tasm膩nn膩bh膩vamicchanti ye loke bh膩vav膩dina岣� |
abh膩vav膩dino v膩pi na bh膩va峁� tattvalak峁峁嘺m || 64 ||64. Those who believe in a positive reality do not accept non-existence and those who believe in nonexistence only do not accept any positive entity.
Commentary
[The sages hold the view that birth and death are nothing more than the manifestation and the hiding of the real. What is called non-existence is not something distinct from existence. It is nothing more than the previous and later conditions of existence. The previous non-existence of a jar is clay and its later non-existence is potsherds (办补辫腻濒补). The 艢奴苍测补惫腻诲颈苍蝉 consider non-existence alone to be the truth. But even they have to admit existence at the worldly level. Thus through 鈥�蝉补峁僾峁泃颈鈥� or hiding of reality at the worldly level, everything can be explained.]
How the distinction between existence and non-existence arises, is now explained.