Shringaraprakasha 3.p2.22

3.p2.22

ataḥ sthitametat prakṛtipratyayādivarṇajanitadhvanisamūbo'bhivyaṅgyasphoṭalakṣaṇo|rthātmā'rthāvasāyaprasavanimittaṃ śabdaḥ| tadviśeṣāśca prakṛtyādisphoṭaḥ padasphoṭo vākyasphoṭa iti| --- yobhūdityādikaśśabdo bhavatītyādikaśca yaḥ| bhūrastītyādiko yaśca sa sphoḍaṭaṃ nātivartate|| pratipādyo nivartyaśca pratipādaka eva ca | tridhā sphoṭassaphūṭatyamādato'rthāste ghaṭādayaḥ|| uktaḥ kramāt dvādaśabhedabhinnaśśabdaprapañco'yamanādisiddhaḥ| athārthamartyā'sya vivartamādyaṃ tāvatprakāraṃ pratipādayāmaḥ|| iti mahārājādhirāja śrībhojadevavicite śṛṅgāraprakāśe prakṛtyādiśabdaprakāśo nāmā tṛtīyāḥ prakāśaḥ||

Hence, this is established: linguistic sound is that which is characterisable as the sphoṭa—the essence of meaning revealed by the mass of phonetic sounds generated by the phonemes such as morphological bases and affixes—which serves as the cause producing the definitive cognition of meaning. And its varieties are the base-sphoṭa, the word-sphoṭa, and the sentence-sphoṭa. Linguistic sound such as abhūt and linguistic sound such as bhavati, / and that such as bhūḥ and asti—none of it exceeds sphoṭa. // The sphoṭa is threefold: that which is to be conveyed, that which is to be rejected, and that which conveys; / from it [meaning] bursts forth, hence those meanings, such as a pot and the like. // This beginningless elaboration of linguistic sound, divided into twelve varieties, has been stated in sequence. / Now, by way of its meaning, we shall explain its first manifestation according to its kinds. // Thus concludes the third illumination, entitled 'Illumination of Linguistic Sound Beginning with Morphological Base', in the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa composed by the supreme king of kings, the venerable Bhojadeva.