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 3.7.112
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.112:
啶ぅ啷堗さ啶距啶距し啶ㄠぞ啶膏啶むた啶む啶掂ぎ啶膏え啷嵿え啷傕ぐ啷嵿い啶苦え啶苦ぐ啷傕お啶苦い啶 啷�
啶むぅ啷堗さ 啶啶班啶むた啶ㄠぞ啶膏啶むた啶む啶掂ぎ啶膏う啶距啶距ざ啶ㄠた啶多啶班く啶 啷� 啷оェ啷� 啷�测补迟丑补颈惫腻办腻峁苍腻蝉迟颈迟惫补尘补蝉补苍苍奴谤迟颈苍颈谤奴辫颈迟补尘 |
tathaiva m奴rtin膩stitvamasad腻办腻艣补ni艣rayam || 112 ||112. Just as the (unreal) absence of 腻办腻艣补 is imagined on the basis of the presence of limited objects, in the same way, the absence of limited bodies is also imagined on the basis of the presence of 腻办腻艣补.
Commentary
It is now shown that destruction is only a fiction.
[Read verse 112 above]
[What is called destruction is really a fiction. 膧办腻艣补 is all-pervasive. There is no place where it is not. And yet one creates the fiction that where the limited objects are there is no 腻办腻艣补. Similarly, there is no such thing as the total destruction of even limited objects like a jar. And yet when they are not visible one understands that there is 腻办腻艣补 where the objects were. When the objects are manifested, one looks upon them as being born. Thus both being born and being destroyed are fictions. Things are neither born nor destroyed. What is called 腻办腻艣补 is not the absence of things. If there is no absence of things, there cannot be birth either, because things are always there.]
Even if birth is real, the expression 鈥榠t is born鈥� can be explained.