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 3.9.43
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.43:
अयनप्रविभागश्च गतिश्च ज्योतिषां ध्रुवा ।
निवृत्तिप्रभवाश्चैव भूतानां तन्निबन्धनाः ॥ ४३ ॥ayanapravibhāgaśca gatiśca jyotiṣāṃ dhruvā |
nivṛttiprabhavāścaiva bhūtānāṃ tannibandhanāḥ || 43 ||43. Therefore the division of the year into the two courses of the Sun (ayana), the fixed movement of the celestial bodies and the origin and destruction of all beings are due to Time.
Commentary
[The two courses of the Sun are called Uttarāyaṇa and Dakṣiṇāyana, the northward course lasting six months and the southward course lasting the remaining six months. The creation and destruction of objects, denoted by the two words sarga and pralaya, are also due to Time.]