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Gadādhara's Śaktivāda by Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya - Test
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  • 1. What is the central focus of Gadādhara's Śaktivāda?
A) Yogic meditation techniques
B) Metaphysics of substance
C) Epistemology of perception
D) Theory of linguistic power (śakti)
  • 2. Gadādhara Bhattācārya primarily belonged to which philosophical school?
A) Sāṃkhya
B) Navya-Nyāya
C) Buddhism
D) Advaita Vedānta
  • 3. What does anvaya primarily concern in Gadādhara's theory?
A) Cosmic order
B) Moral duty
C) Historical continuity
D) Syntactic connection
  • 4. Which factor ensures semantic compatibility between words?
A) Āsatti
B) Tātparya
C) Saṃskāra
D) Yogyatā
  • 5. What role does tātparya play in sentence meaning?
A) Social context
B) Speaker's intention
C) Grammatical rules
D) Historical usage
  • 6. Which term refers to the expectancy of words for one another?
A) Viśiṣṭa
B) Prakāra
C) Sāmarthya
D) Ākāṅkṣā
  • 7. What does śakti primarily produce in the listener?
A) Emotional response
B) Moral transformation
C) Understanding of meaning
D) Spiritual awakening
  • 8. What does Gadādhara consider as the locus of śakti?
A) External objects
B) Speaker's mind
C) Words themselves
D) Listener's consciousness
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