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 3.8.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.25:
आविर्भावतिरोभावौ जन्मनाशौ तथापरैः ।
षट्सु भावविकारेषु कल्पितौ व्यावहारिकौ ॥ २५ ॥āvirbhāvatirobhāvau janmanāśau tathāparaiḥ |
ṣaṭsu bhāvavikāreṣu kalpitau vyāvahārikau || 25 ||25. Among the six transformations of Being, two, manifestation and hiding or birth and destruction according to others, are attributed to it for practical purposes.
Commentary
[According to the Satkāryavāda of the Sāṅkhyas, what is called the origin of objects is their revelation or manifestation and destruction is nothing more than their hiding. According to the asatkāryavāda of the Vaiśeṣikas, origin is birth, the coming into being of something new and destruction is its complete dissolution. Among the six transformations of Being, these two are thus differently conceived by different thinkers. They are attributed to Being (sattā) which, being eternal, cannot have birth and destruction. It is always of one form and therefore, cannot be manifested or hidden. Origin and destruction of Being are thus fictitious.]
It is now stated that these two include action.