Shringaraprakasha 8.p1.16

8.p1.16

gośabdasya śuklānvatio'rtha iti, sa hi vyabhicarati kṛṣṇānvitasyāpi tadarthasyopalambhāt, nāpi sarvānvitaḥ, ānantyena duravagamatvāt, kinvākāṃkṣitannihitayogārthāntarānukto'syārtha iti, etāṃ vyutpattiṃ vākyānyeva padāvāpodvāpaviracanāvaicitryabhāñji sañjanayanti | yataḥ --- opyante coddhriyante ca svārthāḥ svānvayaśālinaḥ | anvite sve ca sāmarthyaṃ padānāṃ tena gamyate || tatra ca ---- yadyadākāṃkṣitaṃ yogyaṃ sannidhānaṃ prapadyate | tadanvitaḥ padenārthaḥ svakīyaḥ pratipādyate || padārthaparyantāpi ca bhavantī vyutpattirīdṛśī dṛśyate na śuddhapadārthaviṣayā | tathāhi---- niyataṃ sādhanaṃ sādhye kriyāniyasādhanā | sasannidhānamātreṇa niyamaḥ samprakāśate || guṇabhāvena sākhāṅkṣāṃ tatra nāma pravartate | sādhyatvena nimittāni kriyāpadamapekṣate || evaṃ ca sannihitayogyākāṃkṣitoparakte svārthe kkacidgṛhītasambandhaḥ sarvatra gṛhīto bhavatīti nānantyavyabhicārābhyāṃ sambandhāgrahaṇam | na ca kadambakārthapratīteḥ padārthatāpravibhāgaḥ | taduktam--- ākāṅkṣāsannidhiprāptayogyārthāntarasaṅgatān | svārthavāhuḥ padānīti vyutpattiḥ saṃśritā yadā || ānantyavyabhicārābhyāṃ tadā doṣo na kaścana | kadambakārtharūpāyāḥ pratīteśca na sambhavaḥ || iti | tataśca padapadārthayossambandhagrahaṇopapattau na prathamaśrutāpi padārthapratītirna gāmānayeti vākyādeśca bandhananiyogaḥ, na prativākyaṃ vyutpattyapekṣā, na cābhinavakaviślokavākyārthapratītirbhavatīti | yadapi cānvitābhidhāne śaktidvayakalpanāgauravamāśāṅkitaṃ tadapi nāsti | anvayavattā hyanvitatā | tadabhidhānenānvito'bhihitaḥ syāt |

The meaning of the word "cow" is not that it is connected with white, for that deviates, since its meaning is apprehended even when connected with black; nor is it connected with everything, because it is difficult to understand due to infinity; rather, its meaning is colored by another meaning that is expected, proximate, and semantically fit. Sentences themselves, possessing the variety of arrangement of insertion and removal of words, generate this linguistic convention. Because: / "Their own meanings possessing their own syntactic connections are inserted and removed; / by that, the semantic compatibility of words in their own connected [meaning] is understood." / And there: / "Whatever expected and fit [meaning] attains proximity, / connected with that, its own meaning is conveyed by the word." / And even when extending up to the word-meaning, linguistic convention is seen to be of such a kind, not having a pure word-meaning as its object. To explain: / "An instrument is fixed to what is to be accomplished; an action has fixed instruments; / by mere proximity, the restriction becomes evident. / The noun operates there with expectancy in a subordinate role; / the verb expects causes [of action] in its role as what is to be accomplished." / And thus, when the relation has been grasped somewhere with respect to its own meaning colored by what is proximate, semantically fit, and expected, it becomes grasped everywhere; thus there is no non-grasping of relation due to infinity and deviation. Nor is there a lack of distinction of word-meanings due to the cognition of a composite meaning. As it has been said: / "When that linguistic convention is resorted to, according to which words speak their own meanings / joined with another semantically fit meaning obtained through expectancy and proximity, / then there is no fault whatsoever arising from infinity and deviation, / nor is there the possibility of a cognition having the form of a composite meaning." / And consequently, when the apprehension of the relation between word and word-meaning is established, the cognition of word-meanings is not merely heard at first, nor is there a command to tie up from a sentence like "Bring the cow!", nor is there a need for convention for each individual sentence, nor is there an absence of cognition of sentence-meaning in the verse of a new poet. And as for the suspicion of the cumbersome assumption of two expressive powers in the denotation of the connected, that too does not exist. For being connected is having a syntactic connection; by denotation of that, the connected would be denoted.