Vakyapadiya Verse 1.120-121

Sanskrit

शब्दस्य परिणापोऽयमित्याम्नायविदो विदुः । छन्दोभ्य एव प्रथममेतद्विश्वं व्यवर्तत ॥ १२० ॥

इतिकर्तव्यता लोके सर्वा शब्दव्यपाश्रया । यां पूर्वाहितसंस्कारो बालोऽपि प्रतिपद्यते ॥ १२१ ॥

Transliteration

śabdasya pariṇāpo’yamityāmnāyavido viduḥ | chandobhya eva prathamametadviśvaṃ vyavartata || 120 ||

itikartavyatā loke sarvā śabdavyapāśrayā | yāṃ pūrvāhitasaṃskāro bālo’pi pratipadyate || 121 ||

Translation

120. Knowers of tradition (the Vedas) have declared that all this is the transformation of the word. It is from the chandas that this universe has evolved.

121. All knowledge of what is to be done in this world depends upon the word. Even the child, with its residual traces from the previous birth, has such knowledge.

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