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 3.9.74
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.74:
啶掂啶い啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶啷む啶た 啶ぞ啶む啶班ぞ啶｀ぞ啶� 啶むじ啷嵿く 啶ㄠぞ啶膏啶むた 啶掂啶い啶苦啷嵿ぐ啶 啷�
啶� 啶椸え啷嵿い啷冟啶むた啶啶︵啶� 啶ぞ啶班啶椸き啷囙う啷嬥そ啶膏啶むた 啶曕ざ啷嵿啶� 啷� 啷オ 啷�vyatikrame|帽api m膩tr膩峁嚹佱箖 tasya n膩sti vyatikrama岣� |
na gant峁沢atibhedena m膩rgabhedo'sti ka艣cana || 74 ||74. The passing-away of objects does not bring about the passing away of Time. The road is not affected by any difference in the movement of the people who walk on it.
Commentary
[Time is the substratum on which objects and their conditions play. The latter may come and go but the substratum remains the same. The path remains the same even though walkers and their movements pass away. When we speak about the end ol seasons, what we mean is the end of the activities associated with the seasons. The period which is the substratum of these activities remains the same because Time is eternal.]