Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.44

v2.c84.44

This being his main position, he accepts only two senses of śabda, namely, the actually expressed (vācya) and the inferrible (anumeya), including under the latter both lakṣya and vyaṅgya senses, whose independent existence he does not admit. He says (p. 7); "Meanings are of two kinds, the expressed and the inferrible. Of these, the expressed belongs to the function of a word, and is alone called the primary sense of a word......From it, or being inferred from it, as from a logical hetu or middle term in a syllogism, another sense which is inferred, is called the inferrible sense. This again is threefold, consisting of mere matter (vastu), the poetic figures (alaṃkāra) or the rasas.