prati-√ jñā P. Ā. -jānāti, -jānīte, to admit, own, acknowledge, acquiesce in, consent to, approve, [RV.]; [AV.]; [MBh.]; to promise (with gen. dat. or loc. of pers., and acc. with or without prati, or dat. of thing, also with inf. [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.; with vākyam and gen. ‘to promise fulfilment of a person's word’, [MBh.]; with satyam ‘to promise verily or truly’, [ib.]); (Ā.) to confirm, assert, answer in the affirmative, [ŚBr.]; [ĀśvGṛ.]; [MBh.] &c.; to maintain, assert, allege, state, [MBh.]; [R.] &c. (śabdaṃ nityatvena, ‘to assert the eternity of sound’, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 22], Sch.); (Ā.) to bring forward or introduce (a topic), [Nyāyam.], Sch.; to perceive, notice, learn, become aware of [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; to remember sorrowfully (only in this sense P. by, [Pāṇ. i, 3, 46]; but really Ā. [MBh. xii, 8438]).
prati-°jñā f. See below.
f. admission, acknowledgment, assent, agreement, promise, vow, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a statement, assertion, declaration, affirmation, [ib.]
(in logic) a proposition, the assertion or proposition to be proved, the first member or avyaya of the five-membered Nyāya syllogism, [IW. 61]
(in law) a plaint, complaint, indictment, prosecution, [Yājñ.]