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 3.1.37
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.1.37:
啶嗋い啷嵿ぎ啶啶む 啶曕啶班ぎ啷嬥そ啶啶じ啷嵿く啶� 啶い啷嵿ぐ啷囙う啶� 啶曕ぞ啶侧う啶班啶多え啶 啷�
啶啶班啶掂ぞ啶ぐ啷嵿く啶距う啶苦ぐ啷傕お啷囙ぃ 啶啶班さ啶苦き啶曕啶むぎ啶苦さ 啶膏啶ムた啶むぎ啷� 啷� 啷┼キ 啷�膩tmabh奴ta岣� kramo'pyasy膩 yatreda峁� k膩ladar艣anam |
paurv膩pary膩dir奴pe峁嘺 pravibhaktamiva sthitam || 37 ||37. Sequence also belongs to the very essence of this Being. In it, Time is seen, as though divided into forms like priority and posteriority.
Commentary
The author now explains how the manifestations appear in a sequence.
[Read verse 37 above]
[What is called Time is a power of Brahman. Sequence is the very essence of Being and it is also the very essence of Time. Sequence is really not different from what has sequence. Time is not an entity quite apart from the things which appear in a sequence. Time is just a power of Brahman, as a result of which actions appear with sequence within them].
The author now explains how destruction is also essentially 鈥淏eing鈥�.