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 3.2.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.2.6:
啶む啶粪啶掂ぞ啶曕ぞ啶班啶粪 啶 啶多が啷嵿う啶膏啶むぅ啶距き啷傕い啷囙し啷� 啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷�
啶むい啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶距い啷嵿ぎ啶曕い啷嵿さ啶距い啷嵿い啷囙え啶距お啶� 啶ㄠた啶む啶ぎ啷囙さ啶距き啶苦ぇ啷�啶い啷� 啷� 啷� 啷�te峁膩k膩re峁 ya岣� 艣abdastath膩bh奴te峁 vartate |
tattv膩tmakatv膩tten膩pi nityamev膩bhidh墨yate || 6 ||6. As for the word which conveys such (impermanent) forms, since these are essentially one with it (the Substance), it also conveys the eternal.
Commentary
The author now says something about words like 蝉补苍苍颈惫别艣补 (=form, shape) which seem to denote attribute (dharma) only and not substance.
[Read verse 6 above]
[Another name for the limiting factors (耻辫腻诲丑颈) is dharma (attribute). Words like 蝉补苍苍飞别艣补 mean form shape, diposition of parts. It means that they denote someth ng which is essentially dharma. How can they ultimately denote the substance? If they do not, the view that all words denote the 鈥�dravya鈥� falls to the ground. This difficulty is removed as follows:鈥擱eally, these limiting factors are not different from the substance. If they were different, they would be nothing at all. They exist as one with the ultimate, the 耻辫腻诲丑颈mat. To be one with it is their essence. They are not the essence of the ultimate. The limiting factors are so when they are merged in the ultimate. The moment they are detached from the ultimate, they would cease to be limiting factors. They would acquire a kind of independence and themselves become 耻辫腻诲丑颈mat.]