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 3.13.17
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.13.17:
啶啶班さ啷冟い啷嵿い啷囙ぐ啷囙啶班啶い啷嵿さ啶� 啶膏ぞ啶啶 啶掂ぞ 啶膏啶ムた啶むた啶班啶氞啶い啷� 啷�
啶呧さ啶苦ぐ啷嵿き啶距さ啶むた啶班啶ぞ啶掂お啷嵿ぐ啶掂啶む啶む啶ぞ 啶掂ぞ啶掂い啶苦し啷嵿啶む 啷� 啷оキ 啷�prav峁泃terekar奴patva峁� s膩mya峁� v膩 sthitirucyate |
avirbh膩vatirobh膩vaprav峁泃ty膩 v膩vati峁ａ弓hate || 17 ||17. What is called sthiti (rest) is the uniform character of change or the similarity of change or the non-finality of appearance and disappearance.
Commentary
[What is called sthiti = 鈥榬est鈥�, the basis of the neuter, is understood in three ways: (1) when there is a stream of development, there is increase at every moment and when the increases of many moments are looked upon as one whole, there is what is called sthiti. Similarly the decreases of many moments are looked upon as one and that is also sthiti. (2) Increase and decrease or development and decay arc both changes. Change, then, is the common point in both and this common point is looked upon as sthiti. (3) When something disappears, something else comes at once in its place. Thus disappearance is never final. The non-finality of disappearance (迟颈谤辞产丑腻惫腻辫补谤测补惫补蝉腻苍补尘) is the third view.]