Vicharmala Granth Satik Pustak 1 to 8

Author(s): Anathdas Sadhu, Govinddas Sadhu
Publisher: Heeralal Dhole

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VICHAR MALA.
words' village and Ganges,' and for that want of relation the ne cessity of Indication is to be admitted [as it helps to clear the meaning; for in that way, the word Ganges would signify its banks where there can easily be a village and that is the speaker's purport.]
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According to Naiyayikas "A stick enters" is a misuse or misapplication of words. They call it Vyavichara, literally signifying prostitution. Because a person while about to take his dinner, asks another to introduce "The person carrying a stick;" and though simple stick may as well be implied,yet considering the time, the speaker can have no purport in asking for a stick while about to take his meal, that may wait conveniently till he has finished it and about to stir out; therefore an indication depends for its source upon the want of a speaker's purport, for which, absence of that perception of his purport is its root, and for ascertaining it, the meaning which a word has strength to express is its co-adjutor: inasmuch as, the relation of force (Sakya Sambandha) resembles indication, and without the practical meaning (literal signification which words have strength to express) being known, the indicated signification which resembles that relation of force cannot be formed; for this reason, the indication of the practical' meaning is thus being set forth.
That force which helps the comprehension of a particular word to express a particular meaning is called its 'practical meaning' (Sakya). Indication is defined as the relation which exists between it and the 'practical meaning;' this is an extraordinary form of indication. But there are several varieties of it, called respectively, Indicative, Inclusive, and Abandoning a part of the meaning. When the literal meaning of a word is abandoned and another meaning substituted which is related to that literal meaning, it is called 'Indicative Indication.' As "A village in the Ganges." Here the meaning of the word Ganges literally is a current of water-a river-and as no person can live in it, it is therefore