Śabdapramāṇa: Word and Knowledge: A Doctrine in Mīmāṃsā-Nyāya Philosophy (with reference to Advaita Vedānta-paribhāṣā ‘Agama’) Towards a Framework for Ṡruti-prāmāṇya
Dr PurusQttama Bilimoria's book on sabdapramaIJa is an important one, and so is likely to arouse much controversy. I am pleased to be able to write a Foreword to this book, at a stage in my philosophical thinking when my own interests have been turning towards the thesis of sabdapramaIJa as the basis of Hindu religious and philosophical tradition. Dr Bilimoria offers many novel interpretations of classical Hindu theories about language, meaning, understanding and knowing. These interpretations draw upon the conceptual resources of contemporary analytic and phenomenological philosophies, without sacrificing the authentIcity that can arise only out of philologically grounded scholarship. He raises many issues, and claims to have resolved some of them. Certainly, he advances the overall discussion, and this is the best one could hope for in writing on a topic to which the best minds of antiquity and modern times have applied themselves. In this Foreword, I wish to focus on one of the issues which I have raised on earlier occasions, and on which Dr Bilimoria has several important things to say. The issue is: is sabdabodha eo ipso a linguistic knowing, i. e. , sabdapramll, or does Sabdabodha amount to knowing only when certain specifiable conditions are satisfied. It the second alternative be accepted, these additional conditions could not be the same as the familiar Ilsatti (contiguity), yogyata (semantic fitness), dka;,k~ll (expectancy) and tlltparya (intention), for these are, on the theory, conditions of sabdabodha itself.
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accepted Advaita ākānkṣā analysis apprehension argue arise artha āsatti audience awareness Bhāmatī Bhartṛhari Bhāṭṭa bhāvanā capacity causal chapter cognition comprehension consider context convey criterion definition Devadatta Dharmarāja discussion distinct doubt earlier epistemology example expression false falsity function Gangesa grammarians grammatical hearing Ibid Indian Philosophy Indian Theories inference instance intention intentionality jñāna judgement kāraṇas knowing knowledge Kumārila lakṣaṇā language latter linguistic loc cit logical Madhusudana Sarasvati Mahābhāṣya Mīmāmsā Miśra Mohanty morpheme Navya-nyāya Nyāya object occurs pada Padmapāda Pāṇini particular Patanjali perception phoneme Poona pramā pramāṇa prāmāṇya problem qualified Rāmānuja reference relation respect sabda sabdabodha sabdapramāṇa śakti Sankara Sanskrit Sastri scriptural semantic sense sentence sentence-meaning significant significatory sion speaker speech sphota śruti structure svataḥ syntactical tadvati tātparya Theories of Meaning thesis tion true truth understanding utterance Varanasi varṇa Vedanta Vedas verb verbal viṣaya vyāpāra word-meanings words yogyatā yogyatva