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 3.8.31
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.31:
啶ㄠ啶掂ぞ啶膏啶むた 啶ㄠ啶� 啶ㄠぞ啶膏啶む啶むた 啶掂じ啷嵿い啷佮え啷� 啶椸啶班す啶｀ぞ啶︵ 啶掂た啶ㄠぞ 啷�
啶曕げ啷嵿お啶む 啶ぐ啶班啶啶� 啶掂じ啷嵿い啷嵿さ啶ㄠ啶う啶ㄠ啶椸ぎ啷嵿く啶む 啷� 啷┼ェ 啷�naiv膩sti naiva n膩st墨ti vastuno graha峁嚹乨 vin膩 |
kalpate parar奴pe峁嘺 vastvanyadanugamyate || 31 ||31. Neither the expression that something exists nor that that it does not exist is possible unless something is actually cognised. A thing is cognised in terms of something else.
Commentary
How one thing can be the destruction of another is now explained.
[Read verse 31 above]
[Like the judgment of existence, that of non-existence is also based on a positive cognition. It is when the result is produced that we say that the previous state has ceased to be. When we cognise destruction, it cannot be mere emptiness. It is cognised. Therefore, there must be something to be cognised.]
But one does ascertain the non-existence of a thing in the dark by means of the sense of touch. This is answered as follows:鈥�