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 3.9.77
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.77:
क्रियान्तरपरिच्छेदप्रवृत्ता या क्रियां प्रति ।
निर्ज्ञातपरिमाणा सा काल इत्यभिधीयते ॥ ७७ ॥kriyāntaraparicchedapravṛttā yā kriyāṃ prati |
nirjñātaparimāṇā sā kāla ityabhidhīyate || 77 ||77. An action whose measurement is known, when used for measuring some other action, becomes Time in relation to that action.
Commentary
[The known movement of any of the celestial bodies taken as the standard for measuring the movements of other objects, becomes Time. Thus Time is a standard of measurement. It helps to measure other things.]