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 2.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 2.25:
ताभ्यो या जायते बुद्धिरेका सा भागवर्तिनी ।
सा हि स्वशक्त्या भिन्नेव क्रमप्रत्यवमर्शिनी ॥ २५ ॥tābhyo yā jāyate buddhirekā sā bhāgavartinī |
sā hi svaśaktyā bhinneva kramapratyavamarśinī || 25 ||25. The cognition which is produced by them is One and indivisible but through its own power, it seems to be differentiated and assumes sequence.
Commentary
The idea that the notion which arises on the basis of these phenomena would explain Time is now answered.
[Read verse 25 above]
[Though bhāgavartinī is found in some editions and manuscripts, bhāgavarjitā is a better reading and is confirmed by Puṇyarāja’s nirvibhāgā and the Vṛtti’s bhāgavarjitā. The gist of the Vṛtti seems to be this:—Cognition is One because it is essentially in the nature of illumination, (sā tvekā bhāgavarjitā buddhiḥ prakāśasvarūpatvāt...). Therefore its homogeneous and heterogeneous divisions are one with it. Being of the nature of illumination, cognition is partless and sequenceless, but it displays the sequence of the objects now mixed up with it within itself. Strictly, it (the sequence) should not be so displayed but the cognition displays it without dissociating it from the objects. Such indeed is the way in which cognition displays sequence.]