RULE id: vikalpana (1667) SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_I_p020) SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE) CONCEPT: vikalpana STATUS: traditional ASSERTIONS: - [relation] Vikalpana (assumption or imagination) cannot apply when the bases themselves do not exist -- p.vol_I_p020 "Mātṛkās themselves are not there, how (why) should there be their vikalpana (assumption, imagination)?" CITED_RULES: - mātṛkā (relation) CONFIDENCE: traditional PROTECT: false