Bhartrhari

Bhartrhari
born 570?, Ujjain, Malwa, India
died 651?, Ujjain

Indian Hindu philosopher, poet, and grammarian.

He was of noble birth; according to legend, he made seven attempts to renounce the world for monastic life before eventually becoming a yogi and moving into a cave near Ujjain. Vakyapadiya is his major work on the philosophy of language. Also ascribed to him are three collections of poetry, each containing 100 verses: Shrngara-shataka (on love), Niti-shataka (on ethics and polity), and Vairagya-shataka (on dispassion). His poem Bhatti kavya demonstrates the subtleties of Sanskrit.

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▪ Hindu philosopher

born AD 570, ?, Ujjain, Mālwa, India
died 651?, Ujjain

      Hindu philosopher and poet-grammarian, author of the Vākyapadīya (“Words in a Sentence”), regarded as one of the most significant works on the philosophy of language, earning for him a place for all time in the śabdādvaita (word monistic) school of Indian thought.

      Of noble birth, Bhartṛhari was attached for a time to the court of the Maitraka king of Valabhī (modern Vala, Gujarāt), where most likely his taste for sensuous living and material possessions was formed. Following the example of Indian sages, he believed he must renounce the world for a higher life. Seven times he attempted monastic living, but his attraction to women caused him to fail each time. Though intellectually he presumably understood the transitory nature of worldly pleasures and felt a call to yoga and ascetic living, he was unable to control his desires. After a long self-struggle, Bhartṛhari became a yogi and lived a life of dispassion in a cave in the vicinity of Ujjain until his death.

      Bhartṛhari entitled three of his works śataka (“century”): The Śṛṅgāra (love) -śataka, Nīti (ethical and polity) -śataka, and Vairāgya (dispassion) -śataka. Although all three are attributed to him, only the first is regarded as his with certainty by most scholars. In another work sometimes attributed to Bhartṛhari, the Bhaṭṭi kāvya (“Poem of Bhaṭṭi”), he performs linguistic gymnastics to demonstrate the subtleties of Sanskrit.

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