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 3.9.1
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.1:
啶掂啶ぞ啶ぞ啶班さ啷嵿く啶むた啶班啶曕啶� 啶曕ぞ啶侧ぎ啷囙啷� 啶啶班啶曕啶粪い啷� 啷�
啶ㄠた啶む啶ぎ啷囙啶� 啶掂た啶 啶︵啶班さ啷嵿く啶� 啶ぐ啶苦ぎ啶距ぃ啶� 啶曕啶班た啶ぞ啶掂い啶距ぎ啷� 啷� 啷� 啷�vy膩p膩ravyatireke峁嘺 k膩lameke pracak峁te |
nityameka峁� vibhu dravya峁� parim膩峁嘺峁� kriy膩vat膩m || 1 ||1. Some have declared Time to be a substance (dravya) one, different from action, eternal, all-pervasive, something which measures things in action.
Commentary
Time has been enumerated after action (section 6.1.). It determines action. Its nature has been declared by others as follows:
[Read verse 1 above]
[The 痴补颈艣别峁办补蝉 think of Time as an eternal entity, one and all-pervasive. It is different from action and it measures action.]