324 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XIV, 
for admitting a separate means of knowledge called verbal 7 
testimony. 
Verbal knowledge is not included in inference. 
Gangesa opposes the above view as follows :—The inference 
as shown above is not valid inasmuch as it does not involve 
in respect of a thing arises from our knowledge of the 
a8 soon as expectancy, consistency, etc., existing among them 
have been known. Again, after verbal knowledge has been 
It has already been observed that a speech cannot pro- 
duce verbal knowledge unless the words composing it possess 
expectancy, consistency, contiguity and potentiality and* 
ti : 
convey intention. 
BAT BAIS | 
Expectancy. 
E A word is said to bear the relation of expectamey 
(akanksa) to another word if it cannot without the latter 
produce knowledge of its interconnection in a speech. Fot 
the village) is a speech in which the word ‘ Devadatta’ re 
mam’ 
(dhatu) and a verbal suffix (akhyata), and a verb (kriya 
a case (karaka) are expectant for each other. 
ata | 
Consistency. 
; ing 4 
Consistency (yogyata) consists in a word not bearing 
ther 
. . . a 2 - 
meaning which is incompatible with the meanings of 
ae 
te 
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