paribhasha
परिभाषा paribhashaA meta-rule: a rule that governs how the other rules of a grammar are to be interpreted and applied, including the resolution of conflicts between them and the reading of an anubandha.
Where this term appears
- The Antahkarana: The Fourfold Inner Instrument Essentials
…, four things one mind does, and the great Advaita manual the Vedanta Paribhasha says exactly this: the one antahkarana is called by four different names according to the four modes it is working in.
- The Perfect Machine Treatise
Panini's grammar can, because above the ordinary rules sits a second tier: the paribhasha , the meta-rules.
- The Rules of the Rite Treatise
It comes from a much later hand, Nagesha Bhatta, in his Paribhashendushekhara (Paribhasha 122), where it states the inherited ideal of Paninian economy.