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 3.8.23
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.23:
啶呧え啷嵿い啷嵿く啷� 啶掂ぞ啶む啶え啶� 啶ぞ 啶膏い啷嵿い啶� 啶膏ぞ 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ 啶曕啶多啶氞た啶︵た啶粪啶い啷� 啷�
啶ぞ啶� 啶忇さ 啶灌た 啶оぞ啶む啶掂ぐ啷嵿ぅ 啶囙い啷嵿く啶掂啷嵿啶苦え啷嵿え 啶嗋啶 啷� 啷ㄠォ 啷�antye v膩tmani y膩 蝉补迟迟腻 s膩 kriy膩 kai艣cidi峁ate |
产丑腻惫补 eva hi dh膩tvartha ityavacchinna 膩gama岣� || 23 ||23. Some are of the view that the Being which inheres in the last moment or part is action. The uninterrupted tradition is that Being is the meaning of the root.
Commentary
[A third alternative within the same view is that the Being which inheres in the moment immediately preceding the fruit is action. That Being is the meaning of the root is the uninterrupted tradition which has come down to us. This was the view of 痴腻谤峁腻测补峁噄, quoted by 驰腻蝉办补 in his Nirukta (Ni. 1. 2. 8.) and followed by 笔补迟补帽箩补濒颈 in his 惭补丑腻产丑腻峁补. Being is the meaning of the noun-stem as well as of the root. It is sometimes called 蝉补迟迟腻 and sometimes 产丑腻惫补. It is the meaning of all words and it assumes variety on account of association with limiting conditions. But these limiting conditions are nothing more than developments of 蝉补迟迟腻. This is what is called 蝉补迟迟腻dvaita. the view that all words denote 蝉补迟迟腻. See stanza 35 below.]
Now the view of those who follow mental entities is going to be referred to.