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 3.9.18
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.18:
啶むい啶膏啶む 啶膏ぎ啶掂ぞ啶ぞ啶栢啶ぞ 啶多啷嵿い啶苦ぐ啷嵿き啷囙う啶膏啶� 啶ぞ啶оた啶曕ぞ 啷�
啶忇啶む啶掂ぎ啶苦さ 啶むぞ 啶掂啶啷嵿い啷�啶班ぞ啶ぞ啶︵く啶むた 啶曕ぞ啶班ぃ啷堗 啷� 啷оギ 啷�tatastu samav膩y膩khy膩 艣aktirbhedasya b膩dhik膩 |
ekatvamiva t膩 vyakt墨r膩p膩dayati k膩ra峁嘺i岣� || 18 ||18. Then the power called Inherence hides the difference. It brings about identity, as it were, between the objects and their causes.
Commentary
[Thus the effects or objects are produced and though they are different from their causes, they are unified through Inherence (蝉补尘补惫腻测补). That is why some thinkers do not accept that the effect is quite different from the cause.]