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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Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.49:

यदसज्जायते सद्वा जन्मना यत्प्रकाश्यते ।
तन्निर्वर्त्यं विकार्यं च कर्म द्वेधा व्यवस्थितम् ॥ ४९ ॥

yadasajjāyate sadvā janmanā yatprakāśyate |
tannirvartyaṃ vikāryaṃ ca karma dvedhā vyavasthitam || 49 ||

49. That non-existent thing which comes into existence or that existing thing which is manifested by its birth, in the karma called product. Modification has been established (vikārya) to be of two kinds.

Commentary

[That object (karma) is called product (nirvartya) which did not exist before. That which existed before and is manifested by its birth is called vikārya. In other words, according to this view, the distinction between the two is based on satkāryavāda and asatkāryavāda. But this is not right.]

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