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Hence, he concludes that the potentiality really refers to the 
individuals coming under a genus and possessing a form. 
1. The etymological (yaugika) is a word which is under- 
stood by the potentiality of its component parts 
alone, e.g. the word ‘ data’ (giver) refers to the 
agent of giving. 
2. The conventional (ridha) is a word which is under- 
stood by the potentiality of its entirety in- 
dependently of that of its parts, eg. the word 
‘go’ signifies a cow (and not ‘ the agent of going’ 
which is the meaning of its parts). 
3. The etymologo-conventional (yoga-ridha) is a word 
which is understood by the potentiality of the 
whole harmoniously with the potentiality of its 
parts, e.g. the word ‘ pankaja’ signifies a water- 
lily which js born in the mud. 
4. The etymological-conventional (yaugika-ridha) is a 
word which is understood either by the power of . 
its entirety or by that of its parts, eg. the 
word ‘ udbhid ’ signifies a germ cutting a seed up, 
or a sacrifice 
AAT | 
Implication. 
curd from the crow’ signifies by implication any thing that 
ures the curd. 
Salaale: | 
Compound Words. 
_ In Sanskrit the compound word (samasa) is of six kinds, 
biz. 1. an attributive compound (bahuvrthi), 2. a determinative 
compound (tatpurusa) including the negative determinative 
“ompound (nafi-tatpurusa), 3 a descriptive compound (karma- 
dharaya), 4. numeral compound (dvigu) including the unified 
. oo compound (samahara), 5. an aggregative compound 
(dvandva) comprising the mutually aggregative compound 
(itaretara), the unified aggregative compound (samahara), and 
