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 3.9.12
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.12:
प्रत्यवस्थं तु कालस्य व्यापारोऽत्र व्यवस्थितः ।
काल एव हि विश्वात्मा व्यापार इति कथ्यते ॥ १२ ॥pratyavasthaṃ tu kālasya vyāpāro'tra vyavasthitaḥ |
kāla eva hi viśvātmā vyāpāra iti kathyate || 12 ||12. At every stage the activity of Time is discernible. Time is the very soul of the universe. Hence it is identified with activity itself.
Commentary
[In the well regulated stages of birth, sustenance and destruction, the activity of Time is inevitable. So it runs like a thread right through everything in the universe. Being the cause of all activity, it is sometimes identified with Time itself.]
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