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 3.8.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.6:
啶曕啶班ぎ啶距い啷� 啶膏う啶膏い啶距 啶む啶粪ぞ啶ぞ啶む啶ぞ啶ㄠ 啶� 啶膏ぎ啷傕す啶苦え啶距ぎ啷� 啷�
啶膏う啷嵿さ啶膏啶む啶掂た啶粪く啷堗ぐ啷嵿く啶距え啷嵿い啶� 啶膏啶え啷嵿ぇ啶� 啶氞啷嵿し啷佮ぐ啶距う啶苦き啶苦 啷� 啷� 啷�kram膩t sadasat膩峁� te峁Ｄ乵膩tm膩no na sam奴hin膩m |
sadvastuvi峁yairy膩nti sa峁僢andha峁� cak峁r膩dibhi岣� || 6 ||6. The parts which occur in a sequence and are partly existent and partly not so cannot enter into contact with the senses like the eyes whose objects are always the existent.
Commentary
If the whole is superimposed on each part or moment, as the latter is directly perceptible how is action said to be inferable?
[Read verse 6 above]
[On the part which is present at a particular moment before the eyes, the whole is superimposed. Action should then be directly perceptible. And yet the M. Bh膩, has declared that action is only inferable. That is because the whole which is superimposed on the part has parts arranged in a sequence and as such it is not directly perceptible. And it is that which is called action.]