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 3.7.30
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.30:
स्वाङ्गसंयोगिनः पाशा दैत्यानां वारुणा यथा ।
व्यज्यन्ते विजिगीषूणां द्रव्याणां शक्तयस्तथा ॥ ३० ॥svāṅgasaṃyoginaḥ pāśā daityānāṃ vāruṇā yathā |
vyajyante vijigīṣūṇāṃ dravyāṇāṃ śaktayastathā || 30 ||30. Just as the vāruṇa nooses of Daityas are always united to their bodies but are manifested only when they desire victory, so are the powers of objects.
Commentary
[It is like the powers of Daityas, their vāruṇa Paśas (Nooses acquired through the favour of God Varuṇa) which according to tradition, always exist in their hands but become manifest only when they have to overcome an enemy.]