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 1.31
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 1.31:
啶оぐ啷嵿ぎ啶膏啶� 啶氞ぞ啶掂啶さ啶氞啶涏た啶ㄠ啶ㄠぞ啶� 啶え啷嵿ぅ啶距え啷� 啶 啶掂啶さ啶膏啶ムた啶むぞ啶� 啷�
啶� 啶むぞ啶傕げ啷嵿げ啷嬥啶啶班じ啶苦う啷嵿ぇ啶む啶掂ぞ啶む 啶曕ざ啷嵿啶苦い啷嵿い啶班啶曕啶� 啶ぞ啶оい啷� 啷� 啷┼ェ 啷�dharmasya c膩vyavacchinn膩岣� panth膩no ye vyavasthit膩岣� |
na t膩峁僱lokaprasiddhatv膩t ka艣cittarke峁嘺 b膩dhate || 31 ||31. Nobody can violate, on the basis of reasoning, those paths of Dharma which have come down without a break, because they are accepted in the world.
Commentary
In spite of many variations in the doctrines of the cultured, there are well-known beneficial modes of conduct, common to all; to go against them would not be liked by the people. They have never been refuted by mere reasoning. It may be that some do, on the basis of some passage in the tradition itself,1 resort to a reprehensible mode of conduct, opposed to what is accepted in the world.
Notes
1. Te'pi hi ved膩ntadar艣anam 补苍测补迟丑腻 parikalpya 辫谤补惫峁泃迟腻岣�鈥擵峁�. According to this, it is some passage of the Ved膩nta, i.e., the 鲍辫补苍颈峁诲蝉, which is misunderstood by some people and made the basis of reprehensible conduct. Could it be such a passage as na 办腻帽肠补苍补 pariharet (Ch膩. Up. 2.13.)