Purva-Mimamsa in its Sources c19.8
Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā in its Sources c19.8
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c19.8
Exactly the same is true of the Sentence also; the relation of which to its meaning is Eternal; ‘the relation between the Sentence and the Meaning of the Sentence is inborn, Eternal’—says Prabhākara (Bṛhatī, p. 135), on which the Ṛjuvimālā remarks—‘The inborn character of the Relation is in reference to the Sentence itself; because the mere Word, simply by itself, expresses no meaning, it expresses a meaning and is comprehended only when occuring in a Sentence; and what is expressive by its very nature is the Sentence, and not any single Word by itself.