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 3.9.5
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.5:
啶う啶� 啶� 啶啶班い啶苦が啶о啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶む 啶啶班い啶苦え啷嵿が啶о 啶� 啶ㄠ啶む啶膏啶溹啶む 啷�
啶呧さ啶膏啶ムぞ 啶掂啶い啶苦啷�啶班啶啶班え啷� 啶啶班啶掂ぞ啶傕お啶班啶さ啶苦え啶距啷冟い啶距 啷� 啷� 啷�yadi na pratibadhn墨y膩t pratinbadha峁� ca nots峁沯et |
avasth膩 vyatik墨ryeran paurv膩峁僷aryavin膩k峁泃膩岣� || 5 ||5. If it does not prevent and if it does not lift the prohibition, there would be confusion in the states of things, being devoid of sequence.
Commentary
[If Time does not prevent some things from appearing at a particular time, if all things were born at the same time, there would be confusion and the whole edifice of causality would crumble.]