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 3.9.101
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.101:
भूतं भविष्यदित्येतौ प्रत्ययौ वर्तमानताम् ।
अत्यजन्तौ प्रपद्येते विरुद्धाश्रयरूपताम् ॥ १०१ ॥bhūtaṃ bhaviṣyadityetau pratyayau vartamānatām |
atyajantau prapadyete viruddhāśrayarūpatām || 101 ||101. The two cognitions: ‘This is past’, and ‘that is future’, themselves present, assume the opposite forms of their objects without giving up their own form.
Commentary
[The two cognitions: ‘this is past’ and ‘that is future’ are both present but their content is opposed to the present and yet it figures in them. In the same way, a word expressive of one time can be coordinated with another time when it enters into a sentence as in agniṣṭomayājī asya putro janitā. What is superimposed on another does not lose its own form.]\