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 3.11.8
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.11.8:
यथैवाविषयं ज्ञानं न किञ्चिदवभासते ।
तथा भावोऽप्यसंसृष्टो न कश्चिदुपलभ्यते ॥ ८ ॥yathaivāviṣayaṃ jñānaṃ na kiñcidavabhāsate |
tathā bhāvo'pyasaṃsṛṣṭo na kaścidupalabhyate || 8 ||8. Just as there is no cognition without an object in the same way, there is no object which is unconnected (withits attributes.)
Commentary
[It is like cognition which can be described only with reference to the object which figures in it. To talk about something as separate when it is always found united to something else is a practice common to the ordinary man and the expert.]