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 3.9.30
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.30:
प्रतिबन्धाभ्यनुज्ञाभ्यां वृत्तिर्या तस्या शाश्वती ।
तया विभज्यमानोऽसौ भजते क्रमरूपताम् ॥ ३० ॥pratibandhābhyanujñābhyāṃ vṛttiryā tasyā śāśvatī |
tayā vibhajyamāno'sau bhajate kramarūpatām || 30 ||30. Through its eternal activity consisting of prevention and permission, it is differentiated and it assumes the form of sequence.
Commentary
[When the powers of the accessories of an action are suspended, there is prevention. The opposite of that is permission. The activity of Time in regard to objects is characterised by these two states. As objects are constantly changing something is always being produced and something else is always perishing. This sequence which really belongs to the objects is attributed to Time. Sequence is primarily a property of actions but it is attributed to something else.]