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 3.3.73
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.73:
啶膏ぞ啶ぞ啶ㄠ啶 啶掂ぞ 啶掂た啶多啶粪 啶掂ぞ 啶じ啷嵿ぎ啶距う啶距す啷佮ぐ啷嵿さ啶苦ざ啷囙し啶掂い啷� 啷�
啶多が啷嵿う啶距じ啷嵿い啶膏啶ぞ啶︵じ啶む啶啶粪 啶啶︵啶粪啶掂啶� 啶掂啶さ啶膏啶ムた啶むぞ啶� 啷� 啷ォ 啷�s膩m膩nya峁� v膩 惫颈艣别峁峁� v膩 yasm膩d膩hur惫颈艣别峁vat |
艣abd膩stasm膩dasatye峁 bhede峁eva vyavasthit膩岣� || 73 ||73. Inasmuch as words express the universal or the particular as differentiated, they move about in the world of unreal differences.
Commentary
It is now stated that words move about in the world of unreal differentiation.
[Read verse 73 above]
[Words express the unreal which appears in our cognition and do not touch the undifferentiated reality but move about in the world of differentiation. Words express even universals as distinct from other universals. That is, even when they express universals which stand for unity, they are still associated with differentiation. Similarly, a 惫颈艣别峁 (particularity) is different from other 惫颈艣别峁s, as expressed by words.]
The author now says something about non-existence as understood by the 痴补颈艣别峁办补蝉.