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 3.9.20
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.20:
啶曕ぞ啶班ぃ啶距え啷佮さ啶苦ぇ啶距く啶苦い啷嵿さ啶距う啶� 啶曕ぞ啶班ぃ啶啶班啶掂啶距 啷�
啶椸啶｀ぞ啶膏啶むい啷嵿ぐ啷嬥お啶侧き啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む 啶膏啶掂啶距い啶苦さ啷嵿く啶曕啶むた啶灌啶むさ啶� 啷� 啷ㄠウ 啷�k膩ra峁嚹乶uvidh膩yitv膩datha k膩ra峁嘺p奴rvak膩岣� |
gu峁嚹乻tatropalabhyante svaj膩tivyaktihetava岣� || 20 ||20. Then the qualities, being preceded by their causes and closely following them, become perceptible in the effects and become the cause of the manifestation of their own universals.
Commentary
[As the qualities are the effects of the substances, their production takes place at the next moment. For one moment, therefore, the effect is devoid of any quality. Once the qualities arc produced, they manifest their own universals. Thus all objects are created and all this is due to the power called Time, the essence of which is that it is temporal order.]