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 3.8.24
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.24:
啶啶︵啶оた啶� 啶む啷嵿啶距い啶苦ぎ啶ㄠ啶 啶む 啶啶︵啶оた啶膏い啷嵿い啶距ぎ啶ムぞ啶ぐ啷� 啷�
啶啶班い啷嵿く啶膏啶むぐ啷傕お啶距 啶ぞ啶掂啶粪 啶曕啶班た啶啶むた 啶啶班い啶苦啶距え啶む 啷� 啷ㄠオ 啷�buddhi峁� tajj膩timanye tu buddhi蝉补迟迟腻math膩pare |
pratyastar奴p膩峁� bh膩ve峁 kriyeti pratij膩nate || 24 ||24. Others declare that the form which figures in the mind or the universal in it or Being which figures in the mind, superimposed on the objects, is what is called action.
Commentary
Now the view of those who follow mental entities is going to be referred to.
[Read verse 24 above]
[Those who follow mental entities (Buddhists) give their own interpretation of action. According to them, the form which figures in the mind is action. It is that which is superimposed on things because there takes place perception of identity between what is seen and what is constructed by the mind (诲峁浥泍补惫颈办补濒辫补测辞谤补产丑别诲腻诲丑测补惫补蝉腻测腻迟). Either the individual form is action or the universal which inheres in it. Or the grand universal, Being is action. This is according to the view that the meaning of every word has 耻辫补肠腻谤补蝉补迟迟腻 = secondary Being (See Sambandha 厂补尘耻诲诲别艣补 39ff.), the fact of figuring in the mind. That action is nothing more than 蝉补迟迟腻 has already been explained in the 闯腻迟颈蝉补尘耻诲诲别艣补. The six transformations of 蝉补迟迟腻 mentioned by 驰腻蝉办补 are the basis of all action. But the number six is not final].