History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.465

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sons. The V. M. disagrees²¹¹⁴ with this and says that the word 'brother' primarily means 'full brother' and only secondarily 'half-brother', that, as it is not allowable to use a word like brother in two senses in the same passage, in default of full brother his son succeeds (and not half-brother as the Mit provides). The primary sense of a word is got by 'abhidhā', the secondary sense by 'lakṣaṇā'²¹¹⁵ and sometimes a third sense called suggested sense is said to be due to vyañjanā. These are the three *vṛttis* (functions) of a word.