Perception According to Vyākaraṇa Śāstra

Language is a human activity. Through this activity one makes himself understood by another. Another tries to understand what is in the mind of the speaker. These two individuals, the producer and the recipient of the language should never be lost sight of. The speaker produces sounds and the hearer perceives them. The spoken and

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हेगडे वैयाकरणों के प्रत्यक्ष-विचार का निरूपण करते हैं। भाषा वक्ता और श्रोता के बीच की क्रिया है; वाक्य अखण्ड इकाई है, जिसे पुण्यराज ने उस पेय की उपमा दी है जिसमें भिन्न द्रव्यों का स्वाद एक हो जाता है, तथा मयूरी के अण्डरस की। लेखन श्रवण का स्थानापन्न मात्र है। Hegde sets out the grammarians' account of perception. Language is an activity between speaker and hearer; the sentence is an indivisible whole, likened by Puṇyarāja to a drink whose ingredients merge and to the fluid of a peahen's egg. Writing is only a substitute for hearing.

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