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 3.7.154
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.154:
啶う啷嵿く啶啶啶さ啶膏た啶班啶︵啶多さ啶苦ざ啷囙し啶え啷佮ぐ啷佮ぇ啷嵿く啶む 啷�
啶多が啷嵿う啶啶班さ啷冟い啷嵿い啶苦ぇ啶班啶ぞ啶む啶む 啶曕ぞ啶侧ぎ啷囙さ啶距さ啶侧啶い啷� 啷� 啷оカ啷� 啷�测补诲测补辫测耻辫补惫补蝉颈谤诲别艣补惫颈艣别峁尘补苍耻谤耻诲丑测补迟别 |
艣abdaprav峁泃tidharm膩ttu k膩lamev膩vala峁僢ate || 154 ||154. Even when fasting takes place in a particular place it still depends upon a period of time, because of the natural power of words.
Commentary
What happens when a particular abode is also meant to be conveyed is now stated.
[Read verse 154 above]
[Even when a particular place is meant to be associated with the fasting as in the sentence, 鈥�t墨rthe upavasati鈥� = 鈥榟e fasts in the holy place鈥�, the connection of fasting with the holy place is only indirect. A person has to stay somewhere before fasting. Though in the sentence in question, there is no word expressive of staying it is understood and it is in relation to that that 鈥�迟墨谤迟丑补鈥� is the abode.]
It is now stated that time, though not mentioned in the sentence under discussion, becomes the karma, because of the nature of the act of fasting which is the main thing in the sentence.