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 3.7.33
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.33:
啶啶班さ啷冟い啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷囙さ 啶啶班ぅ啶 啶曕啶掂啶苦う啶啶え啶ぞ啶多啶班た啶むぞ 啷�
啶多啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷囙啶距ぇ啶苦啶班ぃ啷� 啶膏啶班啶む啶掂う啶啶班啶粪い啶� 啷� 啷┼ォ 啷�辫谤补惫峁泃迟颈reva prathama峁� kvacidapy补苍补辫腻艣谤颈迟腻 |
艣aktirek膩dhikara峁噀 srotovadapakar峁ti || 33 ||33. It is the creative force which, not residing anywhere in particular, brings together, like a stream, all the powers (required for producing an action) in a particular substratum.
Commentary
How some consider that action preexists power is now stated.
[Read verse 33 above]
Remark. In the second line of this verse, the reading should be 鈥�艣补办迟墨谤别鈥櫬� not 鈥�艣补办颈谤别鈥櫬�.
[According to some, what is called 辫谤补惫峁泃迟颈, a force leading to action, eternal, exists before everything. In that condition, it exists in nothing in particular. It is 鈥�补苍补辫腻艣谤颈迟腻鈥�. It is this force which gives to different things in the world their power to do particular actions. In this sense, 鈥�辫谤补惫峁泃迟颈鈥� or 鈥榓ction鈥� in a very general form is there before particular actions. This is the view of the old M墨m膩峁僺akas. The 厂腻峁卥丑测补蝉 think that what is called 鈥�辫谤补惫峁泃迟颈鈥� is 鈥�谤补箩辞驳耻峁嘺鈥� existing in everything in an eternal form and it is this which enables a thing to do particular actions.]
Other views on 鈥榤eans鈥� are now given.