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 1.134
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.134:
啶溹啶炧ぞ啶ㄠ 啶膏啶掂ぞ啶ぞ啶掂た啶曕 啶ㄠぞ啶班啶ム 啶多ぞ啶膏啶む啶班啶� 啶曕ざ啷嵿啶� 啶掂た啶︵啶い啷� 啷�
啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啷� 啶溹啶炧ぞ啶ㄠじ啷嵿く 啶灌啶む啶多啶掂啶む啶むじ啷嵿く啶距ぎ啷嵿え啶距く啷� 啶ㄠた啶掂え啷嵿ぇ啶ㄠぎ啷� 啷� 啷оォ啷� 啷�j帽膩ne sv膩bh膩vike n膩rtha岣� 艣膩strai岣� ka艣cana vidyate |
dharmo j帽膩nasya hetu艣vettasy膩mn膩yo nivandhanam || 134 ||134. If knowledge were spontaneous, there would be no purpose in the composition of the 艢腻蝉迟谤补蝉. If spiritual merit is the cause of knowledge, the Veda is the cause of the former.
Commentary
If it is accepted that a particular person can acquire knowledge without instruction, then written traditions prohibiting what is harmful and enjoining what is beneficial would become useless. If only a particular individual, due to special merit, acquires knowledge without instruction, while some others have to be instructed by a treatise, then the merit which has brought about that particular individual must have a definite basis. All other bases disappear. Therefore, writers who follow the right path which is based on Scripture, compose different doctrines and attain different modes of realisation.