There is no cognition in the world in which the word does not figure. All knowledge is, as it were, intertwined with the word.
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The masterwork of the grammarian tradition: three books arguing that language is not a label pasted onto a ready-made world but the very medium in which reality discloses itself. Brahman itself is the Word-principle; the sentence, not the isolated term, is the true unit of meaning, grasped in a flash of understanding Bhartrhari calls sphota.
There is no cognition in the world in which the word does not figure. All knowledge is, as it were, intertwined with the word.
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