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 3.14.91
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.14.91:
अन्तःकरणवृत्तौ च व्यर्था बाह्यार्थकल्पना ।
तस्मादनुपकारो वा ग्राह्यं वा न तथा स्थितम् ॥ ९१ ॥antaḥkaraṇavṛttau ca vyarthā bāhyārthakalpanā |
tasmādanupakāro vā grāhyaṃ vā na tathā sthitam || 91 ||91. If it is all the work of the mind, it is useless to postulate the existence of the external object. Therefore, either is either no service or the object perceived is not such.
Commentary
[If the relation of viśeṣaṇa and viśeṣya is the work of the mind of the experiences, why not say that everything is really the mind appearing as external? Why postulate the existence of the external object? Why say that the relation of qualifier and qualified is something which exists in the external object?]