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 3.3.66
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.3.66:
चतस्रो हि यथावस्था निरुपाख्ये प्रकल्पिताः ।
एवं द्वैविध्यमप्येतद् भावाभावव्यपाश्रयम् ॥ ६६ ॥catasro hi yathāvasthā nirupākhye prakalpitāḥ |
evaṃ dvaividhyamapyetad bhāvābhāvavyapāśrayam || 66 ||66. Just as four states are postulated in what is intangible (nirupākhya), in the same way is this twofold division into existence and non-existence postulated.
Commentary
[If non-existence which is intangible can have such artificial divisions as previous non-existence, non-existence after destruction, absolute non-existence and mutual nonexistence, the ultimate Reality also can have artificial distinctions. What is called existence is the fact of being cognisable to the external senses and fulfilling some purpose or other. What is called non-existence is the fact of being Imperceptible and not fulfilling some purpose.]
It is now stated that neither existence nor non-existence has separate Being.