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 3.8.18
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.18:
स च पूर्वापरीभूत एकत्वादक्रमात्मकः ।
पूर्वापराणां धर्मेण तदर्थेनानुगम्यते ॥ १८ ॥sa ca pūrvāparībhūta ekatvādakramātmakaḥ |
pūrvāparāṇāṃ dharmeṇa tadarthenānugamyate || 18 ||18. Thus action which is one and without sequ-ence is presented as having the property of the parts with sequence and which is meant for it.
Commentary
[The conclusion is that all action is in the nature of a process. is really one and without sequence. But the sequence belonging to the moments which arc different from it and which exist for it is attributed to it.]
It is now stated that, as all the moments lead to the same result, they are looked upon as one.