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PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA
use, not in logical connection, conveying a meaning and only one meaning."
The use of the word prayogarhā "suited for use" means that the crude form of a word (pratipadika) is not regarded as a word. Unless the words are inflected, they are not considered word to be used in a sentence.
The words 'not in logical connection' means that the combination of letters are not logically connected though the combination of letters gives the meaning of words logically.
Having defined a word as "combination of words conveying a sense", it is now necessary to know the nature of meaning of a word. As far as the semantics of a word is concerned, the meaning of a word can be basically divided into three categories. They are:
Sabda
abhidha
yaugika (karta)
lakṣaṇā
vācaka vacyārtha lakṣaṇā lakṣyartha vyañjaka vyangyārtha
mukhyārtha, sakyārtha,
abhideyartha
gauņi
rudha yogarudha (kuśala) (paňkaja)
vyañjanā
śuddha and so on
The picture gives us the idea of the basic meanings of a word. Abhidha is the expressed or conventional meaning of a word, i.e. the meaning as conveyed by the direct signification of a word; it is, in fact, the dictionary meaning of a word. Mukulabhaṭṭa (last quarter of the 9th cent. A.D.) in his work Abhidha-vṛtti-mātṛkā calls abhidhā as mukhyārtha. When the principal meaning of a word is indicated, Mukulabhaṭṭa terms it mukhya. The grammarians call it sakyārtha andadhidheyārtha, because the first meaning of words is given in the dictionary; it is
