The Central Problems of Bhartrihari’s Philosophy

The Central Problem of Bhartrhari’s Philosophy’ is a cognitive approach to his philosophy of Sentence holism. For the first time, his philosophy of word and sentence is presented authentically as a system of philosophy of language and analysis grounded on the considered view that philosophical reflection is not only based on the beings of language and the meaning it expresses n on-differently in the mind, but also confined to them. It discusses the metaphysical, the phonetic and the cognitive understanding of language and analyses in depth the word theorists’ arguments, the counter arguments and their reply from the Bhartrhari’s side. It brings out an authentic picture of his holistic philosophy based on the active theory of knowledge for which reading, writing, speaking, understanding, analysis, translation, are cognitive activities. While discussing the concepts, the views of classical Indian philosophers and contemporary western language philosophers as popular in our recent times have been analyzed in view of a comparison to the sementialistic holistic understanding on them. It is based on the first hand original text and commentaries and, thus, the authenticity of it cannot be questioned.