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 3.9.21
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.21:
啶嗋ざ啷嵿ぐ啶ぞ啶｀ぞ啶� 啶� 啶ㄠた啶む啶い啷嵿さ啶ぞ啶多啶班た啶むぞ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶� 啶ㄠた啶む啶い啶� 啷�
啶むぞ 啶掂啶啷嵿い啷�啶班え啷佮啷冟す啷嵿さ啶距い啶� 啶膏啶ムた啶むた啶膏啶む啶� 啶啶班啶侧啶い啷� 啷� 啷ㄠェ 啷�膩艣ray膩峁嚹佱箖 ca nityatvam膩艣rit膩n膩峁� ca nityat膩 |
t膩 vyakt墨ranug峁沨v膩ti sthitistena prakalpate || 21 ||21. The eternality of the substrata and that of what inheres in them helps the particulars (the individuals) and thus their continuity results.
Commentary
[The causes of the individuals, the particulars, are their eternal substrata. As the latter do not perish, the former have continuity. Thus the eternality of causes like atoms helps the particulars by giving them continuity. Otherwise, if their substrata perish, they cannot continue.]
Like its birth, its continuity also depends on others.