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the meaning that "Ghosah" is cool, holy and so on, is got by Laksanalaksana. That is, the secondary power of language, after having aroused the secondary meaning, the bank, works again to arouse the additional ideas of coolness etc. The rise of the suggestible meaning, therefore, according to the opponent, can be explained by assump- tion of the said variety of Laksaņā.

LAKŞAŅALAKŞAŅĀ CRĪTICISED.

The opponent has to make the following two points clear :-

1. Does the Laksanalakșanā arouse all the ideas, which, according to the Dhvanivadin, the suggestive power arouses, by a single operation or a number thereof, according to the number of ideas which are aroused ? 2. Does it require contradiction in the ideas, aroused by the primary and the secondary powers, as precedent condition for its operation ? If Laksaņalakșana be supposed to function only once and in that unitary function the experience of contra- diction between the ideas, of which the hearer is conscious, be not a necessary condition for its operation, it would be simply another name for Dhvani and it would be unjustifiable to treat it as a variety of Lakșaņā. For, the chief characteristic of Laksana is that it functions only after the consciousness of contradiction (Skhalad gati). But if it be said that consciousness of contradiction is a necessary condition, that it functions as many times as an additional idea is aroused, and that for the arousal df every such idea the experience of contradiction is a necessary condi- tion, the1 position becomes indefensible, because it means

2. Dh. L., 18.