Kavyanushasana Critical Study

SR No.: 001713
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 558
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Kavya
File Size: 10 MB

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drives home the meaning of Anayana as 'bringing' to a child. Thus here the meanings of words are understood as connected (Anvita); no separate Tātparyavștti is called for. Hemachandra's Refutation of Antidhvani Views Reviewed and Summarized
By now we are familiar with Hemachandra's method of treatment. While treating of the Vșttis or sense-functions in chapter one, he provides the main theoretical argument on the four-fold power of Word and the four senses in the body of the main text but presents additional views and examples (mostly based on or cited from Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta and Mammața) by way of supplementary material in the Viveka Vyākhyā (Vide K.A.S. pp. 42–44, 46-52 etc ). Thus the exposition of the theories of Denotation and Indication has already been duly supplemented with additional citations above.
Now, under the verse Bhrama dhärmika etc. (V.13) he again presents (in the Viveka, p. 47 ff) the well known theoretical refutation of the Anti-dhvani views and strives to establish the Vyañiana function in a convincing and logical manner by following Abhinavagupta and Mammata. Prof. S. P. Bhattacharya pinpoints this (and Dr. S. K. De, HSP-II p. 244, endorses it) when he states : "In chapter-1....there are unmistakable traces of the K. Pi's influence in the expression and in the ultimate dominance of the Vyañjanā view, the author's guides are the Dhv. al. and the Locana... He has occasionally utilized the K. P., especially in the treatment of the Vittis, though Hemachandra chooses to differ from Mammata here and there..... His efforts for being exhaustive in his treatment are evidenced in his taking the cue from Anandavardhana's specifications of four varieties of Vastudhvani (K. A. S. pp. 53-56 etc.) followed in toto by almost all the later writers and amplifying them to thrice their number with apt illustrations in Prakrit. The age-old practice of giving stock-examples, which has much in its favour, is scrupulously followed, but the author is never oblivious of the practical
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