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 3.8.35
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.8.35:
सत्ता स्वशक्तियोगेन सर्वरूपा व्यवस्थिता ।
साध्या च साधनं चैव फलं भोक्ता फलस्य च ॥ ३५ ॥sattā svaśaktiyogena sarvarūpā vyavasthitā |
sādhyā ca sādhanaṃ caiva phalaṃ bhoktā phalasya ca || 35 ||35. Being, due to its own power, attains all forms: it is what is to be brought about, the means of doing so, the fruit and the enjoyer of the fruit.
Commentary
Now, the sattādvaita of the author of Nirukta is concluded (see stanza 23).
[Read verse 35 above]
[It has already been shown in the Jātisamuddeśa that sattā, mahāsāmanya or Being is the meaning of all words, because it is the characteristic of everything. It is this Being which manifests itself as things and processes (siddha and sādhya), expressed by nouns and verbs respectively. It also manifests itself as the things to be experienced and as the experiencers. These things which are manifestations of its powers constitute, the whole universe.]
Another view of action, already mentioned in the sādhana-samuddeśa (33, 34) is now referred to.