काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER V 137
यप्याहुः
“शब्दवृद्धाभिधेयांश्च प्रत्यक्षेणात्र पश्यति ।
श्रोतुश्च प्रतिपन्नत्वमनुमानेन चेष्टया ।। १ ।।
अन्यथानुपपत्त्या तु बोधेच्छक्तिं द्वयात्मिकाम् ।
अर्थापत्त्यावबोधेत संबन्धं त्रिप्रमाणकम् ।। २ ।।
इति प्रतिपादितदिशा देवदत्त गामानय इत्याद्युत्तमवृद्धवाक्य-
प्रयोगाद्देशाद्देशान्तरं सास्नादिमन्तमर्थं मध्यमवृद्धे नयति सति
अनेनास्माद्वाक्यादेवंविधोर्थः प्रतिपन्नः इति तच्चेष्टयानुमाय
The upholders of the ‘Anvitābhidhāna’ theory have
offered the following explanation of the process of
denotation:—(a)
“The word, the experienced elderly man uttering
it, and the object denoted by the word, these three
things the young child perceives by his senses,—(b) that
the young man to whom the word has been addressed
has understood its meaning, he deduces by inference from
the action of the young man,—(c) and the two-fold
potency (of the word to denote and of the object to be
denoted) he recognises by means of presumption based
upon ‘apparent inexplicability;’—thus the denotative
relationship (of the word and its meaning) is cognised
through three means of cognition.”—
According to this account what happens is that—(a) the
elder person utters the words ‘bring the cow,’—(b) upon
which the younger person (to whom the words are add-
ressed) is found to bring from one place to another an
animal with the dewlap and other distinguishing features,—
(c) the youngest person (the child) then deduces from
this action that ‘such and such a meaning has been under-
stood by the younger person from the words that have
been uttered’;—(d) thus he comes to recognise the de-