anvarthagrahaṇa

anvarthagrahaṇa Tatpur. n. (-ṇam) Taking or understanding a

word in its literal or etymological (not in its conventional

or technical) sense; e. g. the word bahuvacane in Pāṇini VIII.

2. 81, where it is not be taken in the technical sense ‘plural’,

but in the sense bahūnāmarthānāṃ vacane, as otherwise the form

amī would not result from the rule. E. anvartha (Avyayībh.)

and grahaṇa.

anv-artha—grahaṇa n. the literal acceptation of the meaning of a word (as opposed to the conventional).