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 3.1.43
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.1.43:
प्रकृतौ प्रविलीनेषु भेदेष्वेकत्वदर्शिनाम् ।
द्रव्यसत्त्लं प्रपद्यन्ते स्वाश्रया एव जातयः ॥ ४३ ॥prakṛtau pravilīneṣu bhedeṣvekatvadarśinām |
dravyasattlaṃ prapadyante svāśrayā eva jātayaḥ || 43 ||43. Those who believe in Unity hold that, once the different objects are dissolved in the ultimate cause (Prakṛti), the universals have their existence as one with the ultimate substance.
Commentary
What is the answer of those who believe in the Great Dissolution?
[Read verse 41 above]
[Those who believe in the Great Dissolution must naturally answer this question differently. They say that what is called the Great Dissolutoin is nothing more than the merging of everything in the root-cause, the Great Universal (mahāsāmānya). The universals also merge in it which is here called substance (dravya). This root-cause is nothing more than the Great-Universal. According to Advaitins, it is nothing more than the cause which is found in all effects. The Vaiśeṣikas believe that, in the Great Dissolution, the universals exist without any substratum. But here the author has stated his own view].
The author now makes a statement on the basis of the view that all universals exist everywhere.