काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

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word, (i) Capacity, (j) Compatibility, (k) Place, (l) Time,
(m) Gender, (n) Accent and so forth,—these are the con-
ditions that serve to bring about the idea of a particular
meaning of a word, when there is an uncertainty as to its
actual meaning in a particular context';—and it is in
accordance with this that one particular meaning, out
of a number of meanings, of a word is understood to be
intended, in each of the following expressions respec-
tively :—
(a) In the expression ‘Hari with conch and discus’
the exact meaning of the word ‘hari’, which has many
meanings, is restricted to Visnu, through ‘connection’,
[as of all the things denoted by the word ‘hari’, it is
Viṣṇu alone who has any connection with ‘the conch and
the discus’];—(b) similarly in the expression ‘Hari
without the conch and the discus’, [as it is only one who
has had ‘connection’ with a thing that can be ‘disjoined’
from it, this ‘disjunction’ restricts the meaning of ‘hari’
to Viṣṇu];—(c) in the expression ‘Rāmalakṣmaṇau,’ the
meaning of the word ‘Rāma’, is restricted to that Rāma
who was the son of Daśaratha [and this on account of the
‘association’ of Lakṣmaṇa]; (d) while in the expression
‘the behaviour of these two combatants is like that of
Rāma and Arjuna’, the meaning of ‘Rāma’ is restricted
to Paraśurāma, and that of ‘Arjuna’ to the son of Kṛtavīrya
[and this through the well-known ‘enmity’ between
these two persons]; —(e) in the expression ‘worship
Sthāṇu for the purpose of removing the shackles of the
world’, the meaning of the word ‘Sthāṇu’ is restricted to
Śiva [as the ‘purpose’ mentioned can be fulfilled by the
worship of that God only];—(f) in the expression ‘Deva
knows everything’, the meaning of the word ‘deva’ is
restricted to ‘you’ [and this is done through the ‘context’,