This is a critical study of the text Sabdartharatna that includes an English translation of the work supported by detailed explanatory notes. Sabdartharatna is a work which is in the tradition of vyakaranadarshana which includes almost all topics discussed in grammar. The text of Sabdartharatna deals with sentence and its different aspects and words—its classification and grammar-related aspects. This volume looks into its authorship and date and takes up other works by the author Taranatha Tarkavachaspati. It examines the work’s linguistic philosophy—the concept of shabda and different stages of speech or shabda, the concept of artha and relation of shabda and artha and different theories of shabda-bodha. It discusses the scriptural suggestions of shabda and artha as well.
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