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# Sarvadarshanasangraha 13.42

English (machine translation) 13.42

- **Language:** English

### [13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-mt.13.42)

Since the designation 'word' (pada) is prescribed only for phonemes ending in an inflection by Pāṇini as 'what ends in sup and tiṅ is a word' and by Gautama as 'those ending in an inflection are a word', the cognition of a word will occur only regarding phonemes, by virtue of the assistance of the apprehension of linguistic convention. If it is objected: 'Then in this word sara there are as many phonemes as there are in rasa; thus in vana and nava, nadī and dīnā, rāma and māra, rājā and jārā, and so on, there would be no apprehension of a difference in meaning,'

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## Translations (1)

- [The Sarva-darśana-saṃgraha, or Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha~en-cowell.13.p30) — Edward Byles Cowell & Archibald Edward Gough 1882, English

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- [Sarvadarśanasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.all.sarvadarsanasangraha.13.42) — Mādhava, Sanskrit

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