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 3.11.6
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.11.6:
स्वबुद्ध्या तमपोद्धृत्य लोकोऽप्यगममाश्रितः ।
स्वधर्मादन्यधर्मेण व्याचष्टे प्रतिपत्तये ॥ ६ ॥svabuddhyā tamapoddhṛtya loko'pyagamamāśritaḥ |
svadharmādanyadharmeṇa vyācaṣṭe pratipattaye || 6 ||6. Following the āgama, the ordinary man, by separating quality by a process of abstraction, presents it as having a property different from its own for instructing others.
Commentary
[In this, the ordinary man is following in the footsteps of the expert Vaiśeṣika who was the first to attribute the properties of a substance to a quality by the process of abstraction.]