काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

138 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
तयोरखण्डवाक्यवाक्यार्थयोरर्थापत्त्या वाच्यवाचकभावलक्षणं
संबन्धमवधार्य बालस्तत्र व्युत्पद्यते । परतः चैत्र गामानय देवदत्त
अश्वमानय देवदत्त गां नय इत्यादिवाक्यप्रयोगे तस्य तस्य
शब्दस्य तं तमर्थमवधारयतीति अन्वयव्यतिरेकाभ्यां प्रवृत्ति-
निवृत्तिकारि वाक्यमेव प्रयोगयोग्यमिति वाक्यस्थितानामेव
notative relationship subsisting between the said sentence
and its meaning as one impartible whole, and thereby he
himself comes to comprehend its signification ;—(e) after
sometimes he hears such sentences as ‘ Chaitra, bring
the cow,’ ‘ Devadatta, bring the horse.’ ‘ Devadatta, take
away the cow,’ and so forth, and thence deduces the mean-
ing of the several words and expressions. Thus it is
clear from positive as well as negative concomitance that
what is really significant and hence capable of being used
is the sentence only ; so that the denotative convention
pertaining to each individual word is cognised only
when it occurs in a sentence, and is connected with other
words ; so that the meaning of the sentence consists only
in the denotations of its component words as related to
one another ; and it is not that each word expresses its
own meaning and then these several meanings become
correlated (through proximity etc.) ; though it is true
that individual words when found to be used in other
sentences become recognised as the same (as the one that
was heard for the first time). Thus what forms the subject
of denotative convention is the denotation of a single
word only as correlated to the denotation of other words ;
thus though, when the said convention comes to be com-
prehended, it is comprehended in a particular form, yet
this particular form is one that is always overshadowed