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 1.118
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.118:
啶多が啷嵿う啷囙し啷嵿さ啷囙さ啶距ざ啷嵿ぐ啶苦い啶� 啶多啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷嵿さ啶苦ざ啷嵿さ啶膏啶ぞ啶膏啶� 啶ㄠた啶え啷嵿ぇ啶ㄠ 啷�
啶え啷嵿え啷囙い啷嵿ぐ啶� 啶啶班い啶苦き啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶距く啶� 啶啶︵ぐ啷傕お啶� 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�艣abde峁ev膩艣rit膩 艣aktirvi艣vasy膩sya nibandhan墨 |
yannetra岣� pratibh膩tm膩ya峁� bhedar奴pa岣� prat墨yate || 118 ||118. The power which creates and regulates this universe rests on words, It is through that eye that all this diversity of understanding (bhedar奴pa岣� pratibh膩tm膩) is perceived.
Commentary
According to some, the universals (of words and mean-ings) rest on the substratum of the subtle word. They become manifested when the substratum evolves and appear as the expressed meanings and the expressive words. It is like what some others say鈥斺�淎ll objects merge into the senses (as potentialities) and all the senses merge into the intellect as potentialities and the intellect merges into the sequenceless word as a potentiality. All this activity which goes on during dreams and the wakeful state and involves distinction into different individuals always exists in the subtle word, the supreme cause (in a potential state). Others have also said as follows鈥�
鈥淚t is the word which sees the object, it is the word which speaks, it is the word which reveals the object which was lying hidden, it is on the word that this multiple world rests and it is this very word which enjoys after the differentiation.鈥�