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 3.7.35
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.7.35:
नित्याः षट् शक्तयोऽन्येषां भेदाभेदसमन्विताः ।
क्रियासंसिद्धयेऽर्थेषु जातिवत् समवस्थिताः ॥ ३५ ॥nityāḥ ṣaṭ śaktayo'nyeṣāṃ bhedābhedasamanvitāḥ |
kriyāsaṃsiddhaye'rtheṣu jātivat samavasthitāḥ || 35 ||35. According to others, there reside, like the universals, in all objects, six powers leading to action, different and yet not so from the objects.
Commentary
Something is now being said about number in regard to this power.
[Read verse 35 above]
[Now the question arises: how many powers (that is ‘means’ considered as a power) are there? Some think that, like the universals, six powers inhere in all things. They are called karma (object or the accusative function) etc. They are neither identical nor non-identical with the objects whose powers they are. They are really infinite in number, but for convenience, they are classed under six headings.]