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 3.9.49
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.49:
एकस्य शक्तयः तिस्रः कालस्य समवस्थिताः ।
यत्संबन्धेन भावानां दर्शनादर्शने सताम् ॥ ४९ ॥ekasya śaktayaḥ tisraḥ kālasya samavasthitāḥ |
yatsaṃbandhena bhāvānāṃ darśanādarśane satām || 49 ||49. Time which is One has three powers on account of which the appearance and disappearance of objects takes place.
Commentary
[These are really three powers of Time and it is due to these three powers that things appear and disappear. If diversity of effects can be explained by diversity of powers of the cause, there is no need to postulate a plurality of causes.]