Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.45

v2.c84.45

The first two of these varieties can also become the expressed, the last is always inferrible”. It is clear enough from this that Mahimabhatta apparently accepts the recognised concept of a suggested sense in the shape of a vastu, alaṃkāra and rasa, but maintains that these are not revealed by vyakti or suggestion, but by anumāna¹⁸; for the expressed sense and the so-called suggested sense stand in the relation of liṅga and liṅgin, the middle and the major terms of a syllogism (p. 12).