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 3.9.70
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.70:
प्रतिबन्धाभ्यानुज्ञाभ्यां नालाकाविवराश्रिते ।
यदम्भसि प्रक्षरणं तत्कालस्यैव चेष्टितम् ॥ ७० ॥pratibandhābhyānujñābhyāṃ nālākāvivarāśrite |
yadambhasi prakṣaraṇaṃ tatkālasyaiva ceṣṭitam || 70 ||70. The flow of water, through the hole of the tube (nālikā) by means of prevention and permission, is itself the work of Time.
Commentary
[According to some, Time is nothing more than these mental constructions. For some, the flow of water in the machine for measuring Time is itself Time. But there is something which makes some of the water flow and not all at a particular time and that is Time which is, therefore, different from the flow. Time measures the flow.]