Journal ArticleDOI
Somānanda on the Meaningfulness of Language
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper examined Somānanda's understanding of the denotative capacity of speech (śabda) as presented in his Śivadṛṣṭi, ǫhnika four.Abstract:
\n The present article examines Somānanda’s understanding of the denotative capacity of speech (śabda) as presented in his Śivadṛṣṭi, āhnika four. Somānanda argues that this denotative capacity is innate in words because based in a real sāmānya or universal; that a permanent connection links śabda and its object (artha), not convention (saṃketa); and that the referent of speech is an object innately imbued with linguistic capacity in the form of an ever-present, innate sāmānya. Each of these positions is also supported by the Mīmāṃsā, and Somānanda, citing both Śabara and Kumārila, assents to their positions on these points on the understanding that they may only be accepted as philosophically sound if one presumes the existence of a Śaiva non-duality of all as Śiva-as-consciousness. These positions, in turn, are all deployed as arguments against those of the Buddhist Pramāṇa Theorists, whose views in each of these three areas Somānanda contests.read more
Citations
More filters
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
What Did Kumārila Bhaṭṭa Mean by Svataḥ Prāmāṇya?@@@What Did Kumarila Bhatta Mean by Svatah Pramanya?
Book
The ubiquitous Śiva : Somānanda's Śivadṛṣṭi and his tantric interlocutors
John Nemec,Somānanda +1 more
TL;DR: Somananda's Sivadrsti and the emergence of the Pratyabhijna as discussed by the authors is a well-known example of a work that uses Trika VBh and technical terminology in Somananda and the Saiva Siddhanta.
Journal ArticleDOI
On Semantics and Saṃketa: Thoughts on a Neglected Problem with Buddhist Apoha Doctrine
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of meaning for a particular language should be conceived by a philosopher as describing the practice of linguistic interchange by speakers of the language without taking it as already understood what it is to have a language at all: that is what, by imagining such a theory, we are trying to make explict.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Two Pratyabhijñā Theories of Error
TL;DR: The authors argued that Abhinavagupta's theory of error, the apūrṇakhyāti theory, synthesizes two distinguishable Pratyabhijnā treatments of error that were developed in three phases prior to him.
Journal ArticleDOI
How is Verbal Signification Possible: Understanding Abhinavagupta's Reply
TL;DR: This article found that Abhinavagupta's acceptance of sphota would seem the natural outcome of the central place that Bhartrhari's teaching in the Trika philosophy.