Sahrdayaloka Part 01

SR No.: 006908
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 602
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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SAHĶDAYĀLOKA denoted :
“jñānam prayoktur, bāhyo’rthaḥ svarūpam ca pratīyate śabdair uccaritais teșām
sambandhaḥ samavasthitaḥ.” (V. P. III. 1) A sound is meaningless, if it does not convey these three things, viz. the sound itself, its import and the actual fact. So, in case of an absence of relation existing between word and its meaning, we cannot account logically for the derivation of a given meaning from a given word. So, in such a relation, a fundamental solution of a question, as to why things are invariably signified by their corresponding words, is seen by Bhartshari.
Different Views :
The relation of word and meaning has been explained differently by different schools of thought. The Mīmāmsakas and the grammarians. hold the relation between word and meaning as permanent : Vācaspati in his Tātparya-tīkā on Nyāya-sūtra (=Nyā. Sū.) II.1.55 takes note of this : ye’pi mīmāmsakā vaiyā— karanā vā svābhāvikam sabdā'rthayoh sambandham āsthisata." -
The Naiyāyikas and the Vaiśesikas look upon this relation as conventional i.e. 'samketita' or creation of Divine Will. Still others maintain that the relation between sound and sense is like one that exists between cause and effect, or manifester and manifested, i.e. grāhaka and grāhya, etc.: Punyarāja on V. P. I. observes : śabdārthasya kārya-kārana-sambandhaśca iti eke. - The V. P. I. has :
"grāhyatvam grāhakatvam ca dve sakti tejaso yathā, tathaiva sarva-sabdānām
ete přthag avasthite." and also,
"prakāśaka-prakāśyatvam kārya-kāraņa-rūpatā, antar mātrā"tmanas tasya śabda-tattvasya sarvadā.” (V. P. II)