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 3.9.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.6:
तस्यात्मा बहुधा भिन्नो भेदैर्धर्मान्तराश्रयैः ।
न हि भिन्नमभिन्नं वा वस्तु किञ्चन विद्यते ॥ ६ ॥tasyātmā bahudhā bhinno bhedairdharmāntarāśrayaiḥ |
na hi bhinnamabhinnaṃ vā vastu kiñcana vidyate || 6 ||6. Due to association with divisions of other things, it is differentiated in many ways. Nothing is one or differentiated in itself.
Commentary
[Time is one, but it is differentiated due to association with the different actions of the objects of the universe. The actions of objects are the associates of Time and it assumes distinctions due to this association. All differentiation in objects is due to external factors.]