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’,