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 3.7.113
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.113:
啶ぅ啶� 啶むう啶班啶ム啶班啶掂啶ぞ啶ぞ啶班啶� 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶む啶ぞ 啶掂啶お啶︵た啶多啶い啷� 啷�
啶呧き啷囙う啶椸啶班す啶｀ぞ啶︵啶� 啶曕ぞ啶班啶啶距ぐ啶｀く啷嬥 啶曕啶班ぎ啶� 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�yath膩 tadarthairvy膩p膩rai岣� kriy膩tm膩 vyapadi艣yate |
abhedagraha峁嚹乨e峁 k膩ryak膩ra峁嘺yo岣� krama岣� || 113 ||113. Just as the main action is called by the name of the preliminary acts leading to it, on the basis of their identification, so is the case with the cause and the effect.
Commentary
Even if birth is real, the expression 鈥榠t is born鈥� can be explained.
[Read verse 113 above]
[In stanza 106, the expression 鈥榠t is born鈥� was explained on the basis of the real identity ol cause and effect, according to the 厂补迟办腻谤测补惫腻诲颈苍蝉. Now it is being explained on the basis of secondary identity. The root 鈥樷垰pac鈥� means 鈥榯o become soft鈥�, as rice does when it is cooked. But Devadatta is supposed to cook, not because he becomes sort but because he does actions like putting the vessel on the fire, etc. which are for the purpose of ultimately making the rice soft. In other words, the result and what leads to it are identified. The cause leads to the effect, it is meant for the effect. So the two can be identified, of course, only secondarily. That is what, we do when we say: 鈥榯he sprout is born鈥�. The sprout is the effect but its cause the seed, is secondarily identified with it.]