Ph.D Student, Sanskrit Department, Punjab University, Chandigarh
Online published on 18 June, 2013.
The magics of Human Mind are not easy to comprehend. The power of thinking and understanding is gifted to many animals and the power of expressing is also gifted to many ones but the power to express thoughts and emotions through a unique means of speech in a synchronised and systematic form has come in the part of Human Beings. The process of cognition of sentence meaning is as complex as the mechanism of Human Brain formation. Human brain is materialistic and a physical entity while thinking and understanding is abstract. The consciousness attached in this physical entity becomes the doer but how…? It is a phenomenon to discover. Indian Philosophical systems have established the theories about this process and Medical Sciences has also revealed many of the hidden layers. The sentences are dependent on the meaning of words and words are dependent on their constituent alphabets (varnas). The relation of meaning of alphabets to words, words to sentences and then sentences to the real big discourse or intention (varna-pada-vakya sambandha) will be discussed in this paper. This paper is a Holistic study of the concepts of Verbal Cognition including the theories of Indian Philosophical Systems, Linguistics and Medical Sciences.
