Shabda Bodha (शाब्दबोधः)
Shabdabodha (Samskrit : ) refers to the awareness generated by shabda
Bharthari says:[1]
"It is words that form the bases of meanings, purposes, activities and truth". (Vākyapadiya, Brahmakānda 13)
But intelligent insightful people do not wish to know or communicate to others over and over again things that they already know well. If they did so, their statements would not be worth heeding. They would not be respectable as ordinary or as reflective rational beings. Indeed, they would be dismissed as crazy.
Thus everybody admits that it is only fresh information - information of things hitherto unknown (to the listeners) that figures as sentence-meanings in order to convey which communicators utter words which make up intelligible sentences.
The awareness generated by such sabda — in the form of a sentence is called "sabdabodha", cognition of sentencemeaning or awareness of the relation (of word-meanings).
- ↑ Dr. N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya. (2005) Shabdabodhamimamsa. An Inquiry into Indian Theories of Verbal Cognition. Volume 1: The Sentence and its Significance. New Delhi : Rastriya Sanskrit Samsthan