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 3.9.56
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.56:
द्वे एव कालस्य विभोः केषांचिच्छक्तिवर्त्मनी ।
करोति याभ्यां भावानामुन्मीलननिमीलने ॥ ५६ ॥dve eva kālasya vibhoḥ keṣāṃcicchaktivartmanī |
karoti yābhyāṃ bhāvānāmunmīlananimīlane || 56 ||56. According to some, all-pervasive Time has only two powers or paths by means of which it brings about the emergence or disappearance of objects.
Commentary
It is now stated that some thinkers accept only two powers of Time and not three.
[Read verse 56 above]
[The invisibility of objects is common to both previous nonexistence (prāgabhāva) and destruction (pradhvaṃsābhāva). In both cases, it is the same power which brings it about and that power is called prevention (pratibandha). The second power is that which makes objects visible and that is called abhyanujñā (permission). Those who hold this view do so because they think that it is simpler to postulate two powers instead of three. Pratibandha results in the future and the past and abhyanujñā results in the present.]