Shabda

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Shabda (

IAST: Śabda), is the Sanskrit word for "speech sound". In Sanskrit grammar, the term refers to an utterance in the sense of linguistic performance
.

History

In classical Indian

Katyayana stated that shabda ("speech") is eternal (nitya), as is artha "meaning", and that they share a mutual co-relation. According to Patanjali, the permanent aspect of shabda is sphoṭa
("meaning"), while dhvani ("sound, acoustics") is ephemeral to shabda.

Om, or

crown chakra
and white light.

advaita position, identifying shabda as indivisible, and unifying the notions of cognition and linguistic performance, which is ultimately identical to Brahman. Bhartrhari recognised two entities, both of which may be referred to as shabda. One entity is the underlying cause of the articulated sounds, while the other entity is the functionality that is used to express meaning. Bhartrhari thus rejected the difference posited between the ontological and the linguistic by logicians. His concept of shabda-brahman which identified linguistic performance and creation itself ran parallel to the Greek concept of logos
.

Language philosophy in Medieval India was dominated by the dispute of the "naturalists" to the

sphota
and shabda as a mystical "indivisible word-whole".

In religion

Hinduism