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 3.9.54
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.54:
啶啶椸お啶︵啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啶ぞ啶ㄠい啷嵿さ啶� 啶むう啷嵿ぇ啶班啶ぞ 啶啶班い啶苦お啶︵啶い啷� 啷�
啶曕啶粪ぞ啶傕啶苦う啷嵿さ啶班啶むぎ啶距え啶む啶掂ぞ啶氞啶氞啶むた 啶むう啷嵿さ啶︵い啷�啶むい啶距ぎ啷� 啷� 啷オ 啷�yugapadvartam膩natva峁� taddharm膩 pratipadyate |
ke峁Ｄ佱箖cidvartam膩natv膩ccaiti tadvadat墨tat膩m || 54 ||54. The qualified (taddharma), according to some, becomes the present at the same time. Having become present, it similarly becomes the past also.
Commentary
[So far, the 诲丑补谤尘墨 and the dharmas have been assumed to be different. It was pointed out that the 诲丑补谤尘墨 is something which persists and that the dharmas come and go or follow the three divisions of Time. But it is possible to look upon the two as identical and regard the same 诲丑补谤尘墨 as acquiring three different names through its dharmas. In other words, the same thing can be looked upon as past, present and future at the same time in relation to this dharma or that, which may be past, present or future.]
The past and the present being opposites, how can both of them be present in the same thing?