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 3.7.108
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.108:
विभक्तयोनि यत्कार्यं कारणेभ्यः प्रवर्तते ।
स्वा जातिर्व्यक्तिरूपेण तस्यापि व्यवतिष्ठते ॥ १०८ ॥vibhaktayoni yatkāryaṃ kāraṇebhyaḥ pravartate |
svā jātirvyaktirūpeṇa tasyāpi vyavatiṣṭhate || 108 ||108. It is the universal which appears as the particular when the effect which is different from the causes emerges out of them.
Commentary
It is now stated that even according to the view that the effect is different from the cause, the expression aṅkuro jāyate can be explained as an external reality.
[Read verse 108 above]
[The effect which is different from the cause does not exist as such before its production but it exists in its universal form. It is this universal which, for its own manifestation, sets in motion the accessories. So it is the universal which already exists that is born as the particular. Thus, as the universal it is the agent and as the particular it is born.]
The author now reaffirms his view that what is called the object (the meaning) is what the word conveys.