काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER V 157
'अखण्डबुद्धिनिर्ग्राह्यो वाक्यार्थ एव वाच्यः वाक्यमेव च
वाचकम्' इति येप्याहुः तैरप्यविद्यापदपतितैः पदपदार्थकल्पना
कर्तव्यैवेति तत्पक्षेप्यवश्यमुक्तोदाहरणादौ विध्यादिर्व्यङ्ग्य
एव।
ननु वाच्यादसंबद्धं तावन्न प्रतीयते यतः कुतश्चित् यस्य
कस्यचिदर्थस्य प्रतीतेः प्रसङ्गात्। एवं च संबन्धात् व्यङ्ग्य-
Others again (the Vedāntins) have held the view that
—"It is the meaning of the sentence which, comprehended
through a single indivisible cognition, is what is 'ex-
pressed' or 'denoted', and it is the sentence alone that is
denotative".
But even these men, when they descend to the regions
of 'Illusion', have to take into account 'words' and
'meanings of words'; so that according to these people
also, in the examples cited above ' ('The sandal-paint
over thy breasts has been......thou hast not gone to that
wretched man') the affirmation and such other meanings
must be regarded as being 'suggested'.
[The logician starts off with another objection to the
'Suggestion theory']—"What is suggested is not some-
thing entirely unconnected with the expressed meaning ;
if it were, then anything could be suggested by any word,
without any restriction. In view of some such connection
being essential, there can be no suggestiveness in the absence
of some restrictive relationship; and thus what really
happens in the case of 'Suggestion' is that there is (1)
a constant relation (between the suggested and the sugges-
ter), (2) the relation is such that the suggester is never con-
comitant with the contrary of the suggested, and (3) the
suggester subsists in the suggested; so that the suggester
fulfilling the three conditions of the 'Inferential Problems',