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 3.3.65
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.65:
अद्वये चैव सर्वस्मिन् स्वभावादेकलक्षणे ।
परिकल्पेषु मर्यादा विचित्रैवोपलभ्यते ॥ ६५ ॥advaye caiva sarvasmin svabhāvādekalakṣaṇe |
parikalpeṣu maryādā vicitraivopalabhyate || 65 ||65. While all this visible world is naturally one, there is an extraordinary order in this multiplicity.
Commentary
How the distinction between existence and non-existence arises, is now explained.
[Read verse 65 above]
[All this variety is really pervaded by a certain unity, namely, Brahman. But due to nescience, this unity appears as multiplicity. It is this very unity which appears as existence and non-existence; but, of course, this distinction is unreal.]