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 2.148
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.148:
啶ぅ啶� 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶掂た啶多啶粪ぞ啶｀ぞ啶� 啶ぐ啶苦お啶距啷堗ぐ啶い啷嵿え啶溹ぞ啶� 啷�
啶う啶距う啶苦ざ啶曕啶むく啷� 啶︵啶粪啶熰ぞ啶� 啶啶班い啶苦き啶距じ啷嵿い啶︵啶掂い啶距 啶むぅ啶� 啷� 啷оオ啷� 啷�yath膩 dravyavi艣e峁Ｄ佱箛膩峁� parip膩kairayatnaj膩岣� |
mad膩di艣aktayo d峁涐梗峁佱弗 pratibh膩stadvat膩峁� tath膩 || 148 ||148. Just as some substances acquire the power to intoxicate and the like by mere maturity, without the help of any special effort, in the same way are intuitions produced in those that possess them.
Commentary
[The Intuitions are caused, says 笔耻峁噛补谤腻箩补 by predispositions, peculiar to every living being of every species. Instead of mada, another reading is manda. 笔耻峁噛补谤腻箩补 obviously had mada which seems to me to be a better reading.]