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gauḥ aśvaḥ, puruṣaḥ etc. will not make a sentence, because those words will create curiosity in the listener's mind to complete the sense. But if we say that aśvaḥ dhāvati, the curiosity of the listener will go away. If there is any desire (jijñāsā) in the mind of a listener to know something about the sentence, then that sentence is not a sentence. So the examples given above will not constitute a sentence, because, they lack one of the requisities of a sentence which is expectancy (ākānkṣā).
'Juxtaposition (āsatti) is the absence of a break in the apprehension of what is said; i.e., the presentation of things without the intervention of time or other unconnected things' (Kane, SD. p 35).
In the Bhāṣā-paricchcda, āsatti is defined as -
avyavādhānena padajanya-padārthopasthitiḥ
i.e., the knowledge of the meaning of words resulting from the words being heard without any long pause (between the several words).
To conclude it can be said that' a sentence is made up by the combination of several notions and it is therefore necessary that the impression made by each word should remain fresh untill this combination is effected. If we utter the two words gām and ānaya at the interval of some hours, no sense will be apprehended. It is not absolutely necessary that the words must be uttered together. In a printed book we have no utterance and yet we apprehend the sense because the words occur in Juxtaposition.' (Kane, SO. p 35). So these three i.e., yogyatā, ākānkṣā or samnidhi are said to be the causes of the knowledge of the meaning of a sentence (vākyārtha jnāna).
At a later stage, Tātparya is also added to the conception of a sentence. In the Parama-laghu-mañjūṣā of Nāgeśabhaṭṭa (17th century A.D.), tātparya is also included in the definition of a sentence.
Sabdabodha-sahakāri-kāraṇāni-ākānkṣā-yogyatā, satti tātparyāṇi
Tātparya is another element which is the cause in helping the meaning of a word.
The rhetorician Visvanatha says that in considering compatibilțity
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| SR No. | 524635 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2008 04 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2008 |
| Total Pages | 100 |
| Language | Hindi, English |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 5 MB |