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"Tātparya"
395 padártha-mātra-gocaraḥ, pravrttyādi-bhyaḥ kalpyate iti višistártha-gocaro'bhyupeyate, tad-vićiștárthaparatā avasitā vrddha-vyavahāre padānām... tasmāt lokánusāreņa vaidikasya api pada-samdarbhasya viśişțártha-pratyaya-prayuktasya aviśistárthábhidhānamātrena, laksanayā višistārtha-gamakatvam.” . pp. 153, il
la-gamakatvam.” - pp. 153, ibid. It becomes quite clear that for the Bhātta Mīmāmsaka, the grasping of the meaning of a sentence i.e. the vākyártha-grahaņa, is achieved with the help of laksanā. Kumārila himself notes in his vārtika that - "vākyártho laksyamāno hi
sarvatraiveti nah sthitiḥ.”
Pārthasārathi Mishra in his ‘Nyāya-ratna-mālā refutes the anvitábhidhānavāda •and establishes that even though in a single sentence, we get many padas, still, with the help of ākānksā"di we gather the correlation between different padas" -
“sānnidhya peksā yogyatvah upalaksaņa lābhataḥ ānanye’pyanvitānām syāt
sambandha-grahanam mama.” - Nyāya-ratna-mālā, Vākyártha-prakaraña, pp. 78
Neither the sentence, nor the words by themselves make for vākyártha-dhī. First of all, from the pada-svarūpa we arrive at the padártha through abhidhā, and then vākyártha becomes indicated i.e. lakṣita. : “tasmāt na vākyam, na padāni sāksāt vākyártha-buddhim janayanti, kintu, padártha-rūpābhihitaih padárthaih, samlaksyate asau iti siddham etat.” - pp. 79. In a sentence, there are many words, but when there is vākyártha-dhiḥ, all the padárthas are united, just as all types of pigeons get together for picking up grains -
"vrddhā yuvānaḥ śiśavaḥ kapotāḥ khale yathā’mī yugapat patanti, tathaiva sarve yugapat-padárthāḥ
parasparenā'nvayino bhavanti.” - pp. 79, ibid. Vācaspati has made it quite clear that the power that correlates the word - senses in a sentence, is quite different from abhidhā, and it is laksanā. But this lakṣaṇā is different from laksaņā of the alamkārikas and thus we come across at least four vịttis viz. abhidhā, laksaņā, gauņi and padárthánvaya-sakti. In order to avoid the gaurava of recognising so many vịttis, the padárthávaya-śakti is also termed as laksaņā. : “evam ca, na ced iyam pada-vịttir laksaņā-laksanam anveti,
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