Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.68

13.68

dravyapadārthavādino ’pi naye saṃvillakṣaṇaṃ tattvam eva sarvaśabdārtha iti saṃbandhasamuddeśe samarthitam:

So, too, if we accept Pāṇini's definition (v. 1, 119), "Let the affixes tva and tal come after a word [denoting anything], when we speak of the nature (bhāva) thereof," it is clear from the very fact that abstract terms ending in tva or tā [as aśvatva and aśvatā] are used in the sense of bhāva, that they do express "existence." "This is pure existence" from its being free from all coming into being or ceasing to be; it is eternal, since, as all phenomena are developments thereof, it is devoid of any limit in space, time, or substance: this existence is called "the great soul." Such is the meaning of Hari's two kārikās quoted above. So, too, it is laid down in the discussion on sambandha [in Hari's verses] that the ultimate meaning of all words is that something whose characteristic is perfect knowledge of the real meaning of the word Substance.