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 3.9.46
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.46:
啶ㄠた啶班啶ぞ啶膏啶啶 啶啶洁く啶� 啶曕啶班ぎ啶掂ぞ啶ㄠた啶� 啶︵啶多啶い啷� 啷�
啶呧啷嵿ぐ啶じ啷嵿く啶距お啶� 啶掂た啶多啶掂じ啷嵿く 啶むい啷� 啶曕ぞ啶侧じ啷嵿く 啶掂た啶氞啶粪啶熰た啶むぎ啷� 啷� 啷ガ 啷�nirbh膩sopagamo yo'ya峁� kramav膩niva d峁浥泍ate |
akramasy膩pi vi艣vasya tat k膩lasya vice峁ａ弓itam || 46 ||46. This appearance of the Universe which is really without sequence as something with sequence is the work of Time.
Commentary
Now the place of Time in Monism is pointed out.
[Read verse 46 above]
[It was said in the section on Sambandha [that the universe is a vivarta, an unreal manifestation of Brahman which, in reality, is without any sequence. It is due to the power called 碍腻濒补 that the universe appears to have sequence.]
It is now pointed out that other distinctions of Time are also only contingent divisions.