Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c83.27

v2.c83.27

¹⁴ A word (or its sense), in virtue of these three powers is called respectively the expressive (*vācaka*), the indicative (*lakṣaka*) and the suggestive (*vyañjaka*), and the sense which arises is termed respectively an expressed (*vācya*), indicated (*lakṣya*) and suggested (*vyaṅgya*) sense.