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 3.12.10
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.12.10:
यथोपलक्ष्यते कालस्तारकादर्शनादिभिः ।
तथा फलविशेषेण क्रियाभेदो निदर्श्यते ॥ १० ॥yathopalakṣyate kālastārakādarśanādibhiḥ |
tathā phalaviśeṣeṇa kriyābhedo nidarśyate || 10 ||10. Just as the sight of stars stands for a particular point of time, in the same way, by the mention of the fruit of the action, a difference in action is implied.
Commentary
[In the sentence nakṣatraṃ dṛṣṭvā vācam visṛjet = ‘one should speak after seeing the stars’, the seeing of stars stands for a point of time, namely, when the evening is over. Sometimes, on account of the sky being covered with cloud, the stars cannot be seen. But the point of time can be ascertained in some other way and then one can speak. In the same way, the ātmanepada comes when the agent makes arrangements apart from the enjoyment of the fruit.]