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140 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
यद्यपि वाक्यान्तरप्रयुज्यमानान्यपि प्रत्यभिज्ञाप्रत्ययेन
तान्येवैतानि पदानि निश्चीयन्त इति पदार्थान्तरमात्रेणान्वितः
पदार्थः संकेतगोचरः । तथापि सामान्यावच्छादितो विशेष-
रूप एवासौ प्रतिपद्यते व्यतिषक्तानां पदार्थानां तथाभूतत्वादि-
त्यन्विताभिधानवादिनः ।
तेषामपि मते सामान्यविशेषरूपः पदार्थः संकेतविषय
इत्यतिविशेषभूतो वाक्यार्थान्तर्गतोऽसंकेतितत्वादवाच्य एव यत्र
पदार्थः प्रतिपद्यते तत्र दूरे अर्थान्तरभूतस्य निःशेषच्युतेत्यादौ
विध्यादेश्चर्चा ।
अन्वितोऽर्थोऽभिहितान्वये पदार्थान्तरमात्रेणान्वित-
स्त्वन्विताभिधाने अन्वितविशेषस्त्ववाच्य एव इत्युभयन-
येऽप्यपदार्थ एव वाक्यार्थः ।
यदप्युच्यते नैमित्तिकानुसारेण निमित्तानि कल्प्यन्ते इति ।
thing not correlated to anything else, and (b) according
to the ‘Anvitābhidhānavāda’, what is ‘denoted’ is some-
thing only correlated in a general way with what is ex-
pressed by other words ; so that in either case the parti-
cular object as related to another particular object is what
is never ‘denoted’ ; and hence under both these theories
the meaning of the sentence can never be the object of
direct verbal ‘denotation’.
Some people have urged the following arguments
(against the ‘suggestion-theory’)—“In every case causes
are inferred from their effects. So that when we find an
expression producing a certain idea, we conclude that that
expression is possessed of the potency necessary for ex-
pressing that idea ; consequently, whether the idea be
expressed directly or indirectly, the fact remains that it has
been expressed by the word ; and hence every case can be