[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c93.478 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.478 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.478 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c93.478](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.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). - [Previous: v7.c93.477](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.477) - [Next: v7.c93.479](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.479) - [Up: v7.c93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.478](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c93.478) · Pramāṇa