Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c83.12

v2.c83.12

⁷ *prathame hi vidvāṃso vaiyākaraṇāḥ, vyākaraṇa-mūlatvāt sarva-vidyānām. Te caśrūyamāṇeṣu varṇeṣu dhvanir iti vyāharanti. Tathaivânyais tan-matānusāribhiḥ sūribhiḥ kāvya-tattvārtha-darśibhir vācya-vācaka-sammiśraḥ śabdātmā kāvyam iti vyapadeśyo vyañjakatva-sāmyād dhvanir ityuktaḥ* (pp. 47-8). See *Locana* on this. Cf also: *pariniścita-nirapabhraṃśa-śabda-brahmaṇāṃ vipaścitāṃ matam āśrityaiva pravṛtto'yaṃ dhvani-vyavahāra iti taiḥ saha kiṃ virodhā-virodhau cintyete* (p. 199). In this last passage, the reference is not to Vedānta, as some would think, but to the grammatico-philosophical theory of *śabda-brahma*. See Jacobi's note on this passage in *ZDMG*, lvii, 1903, p. 56 fn 1.