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 3.9.60
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.60:
सत्त्वादव्यतिरेकेण तास्तिस्रोऽपि व्यवस्थिताः ।
क्रमस्तास्तदभेदाच्च सदसत्त्वं न भिद्यते ॥ ६० ॥sattvādavyatirekeṇa tāstisro'pi vyavasthitāḥ |
kramastāstadabhedācca sadasattvaṃ na bhidyate || 60 ||60. These three powers are really not different from existence. They are also sequence. Existence and non-existence, being not different from these powers, do not differ from each other.
Commentary
[What is called sequence is nothing more than these three powers of objects. Through these powers, things appear or disappear. Manifestation of objects and their withdrawal, these are the two functions of these powers. In fact, non-existence is nothing more than non-manifestation. There is really no difference between existence and non-existence. They are only two states of the same thing.]