RULE id: mahāvākya (522) SOURCE: brihaddesi_sharma_1992 (vol_I_p083) SCOPE: technical_term family, Brihaddesi (Mātaṅga ~750 CE) CONCEPT: mahāvākya STATUS: empirical ASSERTIONS: - [enumeration] Mahāvākya has four primary connotations: aggregation of sentences (nyāya view), aggregation with primary and secondary sentences (Mimāmsā view), sentence expressing deep philosophical meaning (Vedanta view), and simple aggregate as in literary compositions -- p.vol_I_p083 "Mahāvākya has four primary connotations as follows - (a) An aggregation of sentences where the apprehension of the meaning of the individual components (sentenc" CITED_RULES: - mahābhārata (enumeration) - nyāya (enumeration) - vākya (enumeration) CONFIDENCE: empirical PROTECT: false