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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stress that only the brave, the learned and the parasites achieve success in this world, we feel that Lakṣaṇā can very well convey this purpose if Suvaṛṇapuspa is taken to mean. 'prosperity' and Cinvanti to mean 'achieving' or 'obtaining' - both of which senses can be connected with the primary sense. Thus the excellence of these three types of men can be suggested. This suggestion is very poetic in that the praiseworthy qualities of the brave etc., are, like the pair of the fully grown breast of a lovely and cultured heroine, precious and only suggested. Here the word is important, and the sense is a help-mate. So here there are all the four Vyaparas-Abhidha, Tātparya, Lakṣaṇā and Vyañjaña according to Abhinavagupta and Vyañjanā pervades this short but fully suggestive verse (Read Viveka, p. 71).
In order to explain the verse Suvarṇapuṣpām etc.,. Hemachandra provides a note in the Viveka Commentary, wherein he cites a verse Sihipiccha to explain the principle that words are not enough to sustain a Sabdi Vyañjanā. This verse outwardly means that the wife of a hunter moves about proudly with the peacock's feathers as ear-ornaments in the midst of her cowives who have cosmetics for make-up, made from pearls. This verse is quoted in the Dhvanyaloka (II. 24 ff). Hemachandra has reproduced Anandavardhana's gloss on Dhv. Al. II. 24 in the Viveka (pages 71-72), by reversing the order and varying it a little.49 On this verse Abhinava remarks: "The wife has only peacock's feathers for ornament, nothing more to beautify her, and her cowives have pearls to decorate their body. Still she is proudly moving about in their midst! The suggestion-real-is that the hunter is So engrossed in her love that he finds no time or has no energy left in him to kill elephants etc.; so he kills nearby peacocks and gets their feathers to decorate her. But she is content through love. But when the hunter was in love with the cowives, he did not lose himself and so had time to kill elephants etc. This shows the great good fortune of the heroine" (Locana. on Dhv. Al. II. 24 ff).
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