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 3.7.138
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.138:
啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶む啶掂き啶距さ啷� 啶� 啶о啶ㄠ啶掂啶ぎ啶苦い啶� 啶膏啶む啶班 啶啶班い啷�啶い啷� 啷�
啶呧お啶距く啶掂た啶粪く啶� 啶樴啶班啶掂啶 啶い啷嵿い啷� 啶むぞ啶掂う啷嵿さ啶苦さ啶曕啶粪た啶むぎ啷� 啷� 啷оォ啷� 啷�dravyatvabh膩vo na dhnauvyamiti s奴tre prat墨yate |
补辫腻测补vi峁ya峁� ghrauvya峁� yattu t膩vadvivak峁tam || 138 ||138. Stability (dhrauvyam) is not understood from the 蝉奴迟谤补 as the property of a thing. What is meant is stability in relation to the particular movement called separation.
Commentary
It is now explained how even that which moves can be a starting-point.
[Read verse 138 above]
[What is meant by dhruva (stable, firm) is not that it is a permanent property of a thing, but only that it is not affected by the movement of that which departs. In the sentence dh膩vato'艣v膩t patati = 鈥榟e falls from the running horse鈥�, even though the horse is presented as moving, it is not affected by the movement of the one who falls. What is called 补辫腻测补 (separation, departure) is accomplished by two things: something which is active and something which is inactive. Here the horse is inactive as far as the falling is concerned. Mere inactivity is not enough, it has to be inactivity in relation to the departure of that which departs. Hence in the sentence: gr膩m膩d 膩gacchati path膩 parvatam = 鈥榝rom the village he comes along the road to the mountain鈥�, though the road and the mountain are inactive, they are not so in regard to the action of coming and so they are not 补辫腻诲腻苍补. The village is stationary in regard to the action of coming and so it is 补辫腻诲腻苍补.]