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 3.3.56
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.56:
啶膏ぐ啷嵿さ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぅ啶班啶い啶� 啶多啶︵啶оた啶班啶溹啶炧ぞ啶ㄠじ啷嵿く 啶ㄠた啶班啶ぞ啶多啶班く啶� 啷�
啶むい啷嬥そ啶啶じ啷嵿く 啶ぐ啶距 啶多啶︵啶оた啶啶曕 啶啶班ぞ啶灌啶班ぐ啷傕お啶苦啶距ぎ啷� 啷� 啷ガ 啷�sarv膩rthar奴pat膩 艣uddhirj帽膩nasya nirup膩艣ray膩 |
tato'pyasya par膩峁� 艣uddhimeke pr膩hurar奴pik膩m || 56 ||56. Purity of knowledge consists in its embracing all objects and not having (sense-contact as its) basis. When no form of objects figures in it, purity, some say, reaches a still higher stage.
Commentary
As cognition always relates to limited objects, in what its purity consists is now stated.
[Read verse 56 above]
[When sages go beyond the worldly level, there comes a certain purity in their cognitions. Purity is of two kinds, initial and final. The knowledge of the omniscient which embraces all objects and which does not arise through sense-contact has initial purity. Dependence on the senses is itself an impurity. In its finished form, it is free from the appearance of the forms of objects or of any differentiation, it is pure Consciousness like the sea without the slightest ripple on its surface. It is the supreme Brahman.]