Bhartrihari's Sphota Theory: The Instant a Sentence Becomes Meaning
You have heard a sentence before you have finished hearing it. The last word arrives and something clicks, not at the end, but as if the whole thing was already waiting. Bhartrihari, the fifth-century Sanskrit grammarian and philosopher, named that click. He called it sphota, and he spent the Vakyapadiya,…
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