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 3.9.110
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.110:
अबहिस्साधनाधीना सिद्धिर्यत्र विवक्षिता ।
तत् साधनान्तराभावात् सिद्धमित्युपदिश्यते ॥ ११० ॥abahissādhanādhīnā siddhiryatra vivakṣitā |
tat sādhanāntarābhāvāt siddhamityupadiśyate || 110 ||110. When it is meant to be conveyed that the production of the result does not depend upon any external cause, it is declared to be already produced, just to exclude the necessity of other causes.
Commentary
[It is usual in the world, when the inner essential cause is present, to disregard the need for external cause and to talk of the effect which is yet to be as though it is already there. Thus according to the speaker’s intention, all the three tenses are used.]