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 1.125
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.125:
啶膏ぞ 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶掂た啶︵啶ぞ啶多た啶侧啶ぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶曕げ啶距え啶距 啶氞啶が啶ㄠ啶оえ啷� 啷�
啶むう啷嵿さ啶多ぞ啶︵き啶苦え啶苦し啷嵿お啶ㄠ啶ㄠ 啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶� 啶掂じ啷嵿い啷� 啶掂た啶啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷оエ啷� 啷�s膩 sarvavidy膩艣ilp膩n膩峁� kal膩n膩峁� copabandhan墨 |
tadva艣膩dabhini峁anna峁� sarva峁� vastu vibhajyate || 125 ||125. It is this which is the basis of all the sciences, crafts and arts. Whatever is created due to this can be analysed (and communicated).
Commentary
Human transactions in regard to worldly things and in regard to things taught in the Vedas takes place through the sciences crafts and arts. The activity of the rest of the animate and inanimate creation depends upon man. All science is closely bound up with the intellect (thought) which is of the nature of the word. It is on the basis of this fact of knowledge being of the nature of the word that in cases such as the making of a jar, all instruction and effort of the prompter and the prompted respectively, proceed.