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