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 2.118
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.118:
अनागमश्च सोऽभ्यासः समयः कैश्चिदिष्यते ।
अनन्तरमिदं कार्यमस्मादित्युपदर्शनम् ॥ ११८ ॥anāgamaśca so'bhyāsaḥ samayaḥ kaiścidiṣyate |
anantaramidaṃ kāryamasmādityupadarśanam || 118 ||118. That practice is not the result of āgama (transmission of tradition in this life). Some look upon it as convention. It is in the form of: this should be done after that.
Commentary
[The abhyāsa mentioned in the previous verse is not the result of the transmission of tradition to the child in this life. It is something which the child has inherited from its previous life. The word āgama in that verse may not mean anything more than cause. As we cannot see its cause in this life, the practice is called anāgama. As it comes from previous lives, it is as good as eternal. Others look upon it as a result of convention, established by man or god.]
Thus, it has been concluded that the sentence is indivisible and that its meaning is Intuition which is also indi- visible. But, for practical purposes, we analyse a sentence into words and word-meanings. The nature of these meanings is now set forth. There are twelve views. The first view:—