काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER II 21
‘पीनो देवदत्तो दिवा न भुङ्क्ते’ इत्यत्र च रात्रिभोजनं न
लक्ष्यते श्रुतार्थापत्तेरर्थापत्तेर्वा तस्य विषयत्वात् ।
‘गङ्गायां घोषः’ इत्यत्र तटस्य घोषाधिकरणत्वसिद्धये
गङ्गाशब्दः स्वार्थमर्पयति इत्येवमादौ लक्षणैनैषा लक्षणा ।
उभयरूपा चेयं शुद्धा । उपचारेणामिश्रितत्वात् ।
at all ; it is simply cognised either through ‘Verbal Pre-
sumption’ (of the expression ‘he eats at night’ as held
by the Bhāṭṭa), or through pure presumption (of the fact
of the nocturnal feeding, as held by the Prābhākara).
(b) An example of the ‘Indicative’ Indication we have
in the expression ‘gaṅgāyāṁ ghoṣaḥ’ (‘the ranch in the
Gaṅgā’); here, for the purpose of obtaining for the Bank
(which is the secondary meaning indicated by the term
‘Gaṅgāyām’) the character of being the location of the
ranch, the term ‘Gaṅgāyām’ ‘surrenders its primary mean-
ing’ (i. e. the river); and in this case the process of Indi-
cation is called ‘Indicative.’
Both of these kinds here exemplified (a and b) belong
to the category of ‘pure’ Indication,—so called because
they do not involve or require any auxiliary agency (in the
shape of some sort of similitude between the Primary and
Secondary meanings).
It is not true (as some people have asserted) that in
cases of ‘pure’ Indication—like those just cited—there
is a clear ‘difference’ manifested between the indicated
(secondary) and the indicative (primary) meanings,—this
‘difference’ being technically called ‘tāṭasthya’ ‘aloofness’
—[while in cases of Indication other than the ‘pure,’ there
is ‘non-difference’ manifested between the two mean-
ings.]—This, we say, is not true ; because as a matter of