Sabdabodhamimamsa. An inquiry into Indian theories of verbal cognition. Part III: Subantapadarthavicaratmakah. Nominal stems and their significance.

N.S. Ramanuja Tatacharya with the collaboration of F. Grimal and S. Lakshminarasimham, Collection Indologie no 100.3 ; Samskrtavarsasmrtigranthamala no 8, IFP / Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 2007, xi, 51, 456 p.
Language : Sanskrit. 250 Rs. (Distributed by the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi)

This volume, third in the series under the project An Inquiry into Indian Theories of Verbal Cognition, is devoted to an analytical and critical study of nominal stems viz. underived, ending in the kṛt, taddhita and feminine suffixes, compound words, and indeclinables, according to the schools of Nyaya, Vyakarana, Purvamimamsa, Advaita, Visistadvaita and Dvaita.

Among the topics dealt with in this volume are: the nature of the relationship between a word and its sense, and its subdivisions (abhidha, laksana, gaunivrtti); the significance of a word, whether denoting a universal (jati), or an individual (vyakti), or the specific configuration of an object (akṛti), or the blend of all three; the different forms of primary signification through which a word conveys the conventional sense (rudhi), etymological sense (yoga), the sense which is both conventional and etymological (yoga-rudhi), and also the conventional and the etymological senses that are different from each other (yaugika-rudhi).

Keywords : Indian philosophy, sastra-s, verbal cognition