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 3.9.33
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.33:
आरम्भश्च क्रिया चैव निष्ठा चेत्यभिधीयते ।
धर्मान्तराणामध्यासभेदात् सदसदात्मनः ॥ ३३ ॥ārambhaśca kriyā caiva niṣṭhā cetyabhidhīyate |
dharmāntarāṇāmadhyāsabhedāt sadasadātmanaḥ || 33 ||33. Of the object which is and which is not, by the superimposition of different attributes, one speaks about conception, execution and completion.
Commentary
The author now speaks of other artificial divisions.
[Read verse 33 above]
[Before its birth, a thing is not. Once it is conceived as one mentally, different times are attributed to it because of different attributes. Having conceived of a thing, to collect the necessary material for bringing it about is to be in the beginningtime. The actual making of that for which the material has been collected is to be in the execution-time. The finishing of it takes place in the completion-time.]