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that she ( the friend ) was a rank traitress in that she betrayed her friend and indulged in secret amour with the lady's lover. The inner sense is that the lover is the real culprit.
Sometimes the suggested sense proceeds from another suggested sense as in ‘arforze grgcar etc :-- "Oh you merchant ! How can there be tiger-skin or tusks of elephants in our house (for sale ) when our daughter-in-law with her face covered with dishevelled hair is moving about in the house..
Here the adjective gearsayeit suggests that the son of the speaker is always engaged in love dalliance with his wife and it is further suggested that he (the son) owing to his excess of sexual enjoyment is greatly emaciated and is no longer able to kill tigers and elephants in hunting and collect tusks and hides.
Sutra 22 deals with the varieties of the suggested sense as follows:
The suggested sense is two-fold:—the one depending on the power of words and the other proceeding from the primary sense (amply illustrated above). There is no third variety--that depending both upon the words and sense simaltaneously, for it can be safely included under hoceft,cuT for in it between a sense and a word, the word is more important than its sense.
Sutra 23 defines Tozaltri ascuka as follows:- When in a sentence, a word in its primary sense yields various meanings but on the strength of various tests such as association etc. other senses are rejected and only two senses remain, the first is the primary sense and the other is called the suggested sense. The word that has
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