Nitishatakam bhartrihari biography

  • Śṛṅgāraśataka
  • Satakatrayam
  • Trikandi

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    Bhartṛhari

    Indian linguist, philosopher, and poet

    For the människor hero, see Bharthari (king). For other uses, see Bharthari.

    Bhartṛhari (Devanagari: भर्तृहरि; Bhartrihari; fl. c. 5th century CE), was an Indian philosopher and poet known for his contributions to the fields of linguistics, grammar, and philosophy. He is believed to have been born in the 5th century in Ujjain, Malwa, India. He decided to live a monastic life and find a higher meaning but was unable to detach from worldly life. He lived as a yogi in Ujjain until his death.

    He fryst vatten best known for his works, the Vākyapadīya (a treatise on sentences and words), Mahābhāṣyatikā (a commentary on Patanjali's Mahabhashya), Vākyapadīyavṛtti (a commentary on Vākyapadīya kāṇḍas 1 and 2), Śabdadhātusamīkṣā, and the verse collection Śatakatraya.

    Bhartrhari's philosophy is marked by the concept of "Shabda-Brahman", that the ultimate reality fryst vatten expressed through words. He posited that language and cognition are l

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    This is a pre-recorded video series comprising lectures on Nitishatakam of Bhartrihari by Smt. Vishnupriya Srinivasan. Nitishatakam is one of the most famous didactic kavyas in Sanskrit. Many of its verses are popular. They are quoted often even by those who have studied Sanskrit only minimally. This course deals with each verse in detail in simple Sanskrit, with the word-break, word-by-word meaning, prose order, and grammatical details.

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      This is the first of three centuries, or works of a hundred verses each, written by the very influential Sanskrit poet Bhartrihari. Many legends are told of this Bhartrihari and perhaps I will later recount some of them. His style of writing subhāṣitas, or "well-turned verses," have affected many poets throughout the history of Sanskrit literature, including most notably for Gaudiya Vaishnavas, Prabodhananda Saraswati. Bhartihari&#;s three śatakas have the themes of nīti (moral philosophy), śṛṅgāra (love) and vairāgya (renunciation).

      I translated these many years ago, but I never posted them on this blog, though I did post them on-line a few years ago and reposted on Speaking Tree in ). I have made a few changes.



      The first theme of the Nīti-satakam is &#;the fool.&#;

      dik-kālādy-anavacchinnānanta-cin-mātra-mūrtaye |

      svānubhūty-eka-mānāya namaḥ śāntāya tejase || 1 ||

      I bow down to the Supreme Lord

      whose form is infinite and spiritual,

      unrestricted b