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जैन विद्या एवं प्राकृत : अन्तरशास्त्रीय अध्ययन
secondary meanings it includes various socio-cultural meanings and even emotive meaning also. It is well known how numerous meanings may be evoked in the minds of different persons by the stock example, ast, that is, 'the sun set.' Though the grammarians, scientists logicians and philosophers interested more in the accuracy, precision, clarity and objectivity in the use of words prefer lexical or primary meaning to the suggested one, the very indeterminate and infinite potency of the latter has rendered it more competent than the former for experiences. Because it is only through the power of connoting meanings that can not be expressed directly that the language may convey philosophical truths. In his Introduction to Metaphysics' Bergson says: "Language is incapable of apprehending and expressing reality. But language may be used in another way, not to represent, but to bring the hearer to a point where he himself may transcend language and pass to incommunicable insight. It is a dialectical ladder which, when we have ascended, may be kicked away." This insight intuition can not be expressed directly by words, but they can be communicated through the power of suggestion.
Tat paryavṛtti or sentence meaning
Thus from the foregoing, the anekantic nature of suggested meaning becomes obvious. The same may be asserted in respect of even Tatparyavṛtti or sentence-meaning. There is difference of approach between the abhihitānvaya theory of sentence meaning advocated by Bhatta school of Mīmāmsā and anvitābhidhāna theory of sentence-meaning propounded by Prabhakara school of Mimāṁsā. The former holds that the unitary meaning of a sentence is indirectly conveyed through the recollection of the meaning of the words that comprise it while the latter takes the view that the unitary meaning directly arises from the collection of the words. 2
We neednot enter further into the controversy. Here it strikes to state that those who like Abhinavagupta, Mammața, Viśvanatha etc. refer to tatparya as a separate vṛtti or function of words hold that the intention of a speaker, or the general purport of the utterance is obviously to give a united purposeful sentence-meaning. dependence of meaning on the intention of a speaker (i.e., what he intends to be understood by a listener), or a general purport of the sentence involves the element of anekanta or indeterminateness. Because
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