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 3.9.48
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.48:
啶むじ啷嵿く啶距き啶苦え啷嵿え啶膏啶� 啶曕ぞ啶侧じ啷嵿く 啶掂啶さ啶灌ぞ啶班 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶曕啶むぞ啶� 啷�
啶啶︵ぞ 啶囙さ 啶む啶班く啶� 啶膏た啶︵啶оぞ 啶ぞ啶傕げ啷嵿げ啷嬥啷� 啶ㄠぞ啶むた啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶む 啷� 啷ギ 啷�tasy膩bhinnasya k膩lasya vyavah膩re kriy膩k峁泃膩岣� |
bhed膩 iva traya岣� siddh膩 y膩峁僱loko n膩tivartate || 48 ||48. Of this Time which is One, three divisions as it were, are brought about in actual practice by actions, three divisions which the world cannot ignore.
Commentary
[Just as the Universe is without sequence but appears to have it, in the same way, Time is One but appears to have three divisions, namely, past, present and future.]