Anucchedas 30–74.4

First Division: Supportive Statements - Anucchedas 30–43

Second Division: Kṛṣṇa Is the Subject

of the Bhāgavata’s Major Dialogue - Anucchedas 44–73

Third and Fourth Divisions: Hermeneutics —

Ṣaṭ-pramāṇa and Ṣaḍ-liṅga - Anucchedas74.1–74.4

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of scriptural texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretative principles or methods used when immediate comprehension fails and includes the art of understanding and communication.��Now, he begins a new investigation to validate the same conclusion, analysing the subject of the book from the six hermeneutical indicators described in the Jaimini-sūtra:

When direct statement (śruti),3 inferential mark or word meaning (liṅga), sentence or syntactical connection (vākya), context or interdependence (prakaraṇa), position or order of words (sthāna), and name (samākhyā) are present simultaneously, each member is progressively weaker in interpretive force, because of increasing remoteness from the meaning. (Jaimini-sūtra 3.3.14)