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 3.9.15
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.15:
प्रतिबद्धाश्च यास्तेन चित्रा विश्वस्य वृत्तयः ।
ताः स एवानुजानाति यथा तन्तुः शकुन्तिकाः ॥ १५ ॥pratibaddhāśca yāstena citrā viśvasya vṛttayaḥ |
tāḥ sa evānujānāti yathā tantuḥ śakuntikāḥ || 15 ||15. He himself releases the various activities of the universe which he had previously restrained, as the hunter’s string does to the bird-baits.
Commentary
[Objects are attached to the string of Time, just as birdbaits are attached to the string of the hunter and are controlled by him.]