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 3.7.111
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.111:
आकाशस्य यथा भेदश्छायायाश्चलनं यथा ।
जन्मनाशावभेदेऽपि तथा कैश्चित्प्रकल्पितौ ॥ १११ ॥ākāśasya yathā bhedaśchāyāyāścalanaṃ yathā |
janmanāśāvabhede'pi tathā kaiścitprakalpitau || 111 ||111. Like division of ākāśa and movement of shadow, birth and destruction of the One Reality are only fictions of some.
Commentary
The author now explains the impossibility of birth and destruction according to Monism.
[Read verse 111 above]
[Ākāśa has no division, but divisions are attributed to it on the basis of the objects with which it comes in contact-Shadow is the absence of light and so it has no motion, but motion is attributed to it on the basis of the movement of the object which shuts off the light and causes the shadow. There is no such thing as abhāva. There is neither birth nor destruction.]
It is now shown that destruction is only a fiction.