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 3.6.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.6.6:
दिशो व्यवस्था देशानां दिग्व्यवस्था न विद्यते ।
शक्तयः खलु भावानामुपकारप्रभावितः ॥ ६ ॥diśo vyavasthā deśānāṃ digvyavasthā na vidyate |
śaktayaḥ khalu bhāvānāmupakāraprabhāvitaḥ || 6 ||6. Regions are regulated through Direction and nothing regulates ‘Direction. Powers of objects are postulated on the basis of the service which they render.
Commentary
[The nature of a region is to be the substratum of things. Whatever distinction of priority or posteriority there is among regions cannot arise out of their own nature. That depends upon some other factor and that is called Dik. Thus, we postulate the existence of Dik because of the service which it renders. Being a power it rests on something else (paratantra). That being so, there cannot be another power to regulate it. If another power is postulated, Direction (Dik) would cease to be ‘power’, because it would become ‘śaktimat’, the one having power. The quality of being prior, posterior etc. is inherent in Dik. Contact with the Sun only manifests it]