History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.478

v7.c93.478

Prabhākara held that no word was significant in isolation, but that words became significant when joined together in a sentence. Therefore, he and his followers were called 'anvitābhidhānavādinaḥ' as opposed to Kumārila and his followers who held that words have different senses of their own and then they combine in a sentence and yield a further sense of the sentence. These latter were called 'abhihitānvayavādinaḥ'. Vide notes to Sāhityadarpaṇa (I., II., X) pp. 86-88 for explanations of these two terms by the present writer (ed. of 1956).