If you are a curious Hindu, you need to lift your understanding of "Shabda" and language in various branches of Shaddarshana beyond standard anthropological/historical narrative by padres on Sanskrit and other Indian languages. This may be a good start.
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Sphoṭa (Sanskrit: स्फोट, ... "spurt") is an important concept in the Indian grammatical tradition of Vyakarana, relating to the problem of speech production, how the mind orders linguistic units into coherent discourse and meaning.
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The theory of sphoṭa is associated with Bhartṛhari (c. 5th century[1]), an early figure in Indic linguistic theory, mentioned in the 670s by Chinese traveller Yi-Jing. Bhartṛhari is the author of the Vākyapadīya ("[treatise] on words and sentences").
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The work is divided into three books, the Brahma-kāṇḍa, (or Āgama-samuccaya "aggregation of traditions"), the Vākya-kāṇḍa, and the Pada-kāṇḍa (or Prakīrṇaka "miscellaneous").
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He theorized the act of speech as being made up of three stages:
Conceptualization by the speaker (Paśyantī "idea")
Performance of speaking (Madhyamā "medium")
Comprehension by the interpreter (Vaikharī "complete utterance").
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Conceptualization by the speaker (Paśyantī "idea")
Performance of speaking (Madhyamā "medium")
Comprehension by the interpreter (Vaikharī "complete utterance").
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