PÄṇini’s View On Verbal-Cognition (ÅšÄbdabodha)
Dr. SVBKV GUPTA
Since vyakÄraṇaá¹ is considered to be fundamental of any piece of literature, in terms of offering an exploded view of Å›abda and through that deducing the real meaning or intension of the poet, one should in the first place to take the help of the system and there too preferably the one compiled by pÄṇini. It is a well known fact that PÄṇinian system analyses language levels i.e. pada, varṇa, vÄkya and mahÄkÄvya. The term Å›Äbdabodha (verbal cognition) has been popular throughout Indian tradition and is generally used to refer to the “exact meaning†of a word and sentence.