Shringaraprakasha 5.p2.24

5.p2.24

Abandoning clever sophistry, let direct cognition be investigated! (5.39)

And cognition has already been shown to be unimpeachable with regard to the universal just as with particulars. Therefore, like the particular, this universal cannot be repudiated.

The limiting adjunct is threefold, the primary base is also threefold, and the nominal stem-meaning with its three forms of refinement has been described. The denotative status of particles and their illustrative status have been established; the connection of syntactic relations for adpositional prefixes has been declared. Now the varieties of inflectional meaning are stated as threefold, and the ascertainment of the meaning of affixes and words is likewise threefold. Because sentence-meaning unfolds through action and other factors, the apprehension of sentence-meaning is elaborated in three ways.

Thus ends the fifth chapter, entitled 'The Illumination of the Four Meanings Beginning with the Limiting Adjunct', in the *Śṛṅgāraprakāśa* composed by the great king of kings, the illustrious Bhojadeva.