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 2.144
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.144:
इदं तदिति सान्येषामनाख्येया कथञ्चन ।
प्रत्यात्मवृत्तिसिद्धा सा कर्त्रापिन निरूप्यते ॥ १४४ ॥idaṃ taditi sānyeṣāmanākhyeyā kathañcana |
pratyātmavṛttisiddhā sā kartrāpina nirūpyate || 144 ||144. It cannot be explained to others as such and such. It is experienced by everyone within himself and even the subject (of the experience) is not able to render an account of it to himself.
Commentary
[The difficulty of defining the special taste of a drink made up of many ingredients is usually given as an example of the difficulty of defining the meaning of a sentence.]