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The problem.- The approach.- Aim and objectives.- The thesis and its background.- Ideality of language.- ?ruti.- The ‘dogma’ of sruti: apauru?eya.- The text and its author.- Cit: consciousness in the knowing process.- Dharmar?ja and Navya-ny?ya.- 1. Outline of the Argument for ?abdapramÅ?a.- 2. On Words.- Linguistic kara?a and the word.- 3. On Meaning.- A. Some general remarks on ‘meaning’.- B. Indian theories of ‘meaning’.- C. The linguistic functions of ‘meaning’.- 4. ??bdabodha: Psycholinguistics of Sentence Understanding.- A. ??bdabodha.- B. Sa?sargamary?d?.- 5. The K?ra?s.- A. Ák??k?? — syntactic expectancy.- B. ?satti — linguistic contiguity.- 6. The Phenomenological K?ranas.- A. Yogyat? — semantic competency.- B. T?tparya — intentionality.- 7. ?abdapr?m?nya — Problem of Truth and Authority of the Word.- A. Truth and falsity of ??bdabodha.- B. ‘Authority and Praxis’ —?ptabh?va.- Appendixes.- B. Bibliography.- A. Primary sources.- B. Secondary sources and related texts.- Indexes.- Name index.- General index.