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 3.7.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.6:
बुद्धिप्रवृत्तिरूपं च समारोप्याभिधातृभिः ।
अर्थेषु शक्तिभेदानां क्रियते परिकल्पना ॥ ६ ॥buddhipravṛttirūpaṃ ca samāropyābhidhātṛbhiḥ |
artheṣu śaktibhedānāṃ kriyate parikalpanā || 6 ||6. Thus speakers impose on objects a form which is the creation of their own mind and thus difference of powers is brought about.
Commentary
[One and the same thing can figure in the mind as having many powers. When outside reality and what figures in the mind appear as one, a variety of powers figuring in the mind appears to be eternal. What appears to have many powers also appears to be different means (sādhana).]
Another advantage in looking upon ‘means’ as a matter of the speaker’s intention is now stated.