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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Vyabhicãrins are realized through the power of poetry, skilk of acting and through the ability to represent the artificial consequents. But the Sthāyin cannot be realized even through power of poetry. The words 'delight', 'sorrow', etc., (as it is to be expected from expressive words) are only able to turn the feeling of delight etc. to which they refer into an expressed thing, but they are not able to communicate (Avagamayanti) it in its fullness, as if they were forms of verbal representation (Vācikābhinaya). For, verbal representation does not consist merely in words, but rather in what effect the words produce; in the same way, Āngikābhinaya does not consist merely in the movement of the limbs, but in the effect that this movement produces. In the verse Vivrddhātmāpi etc. and in soke krtostambhastathā etc.73 the feeling of sorrow is not represented but only verbally expressed. But the verse 'Bhāti patito... me vapuși' (158), represents its own sense side by side with expressing its own sense; and thus avoids mere verbal expression; the Sthāyibhāva of Rati present in Udayana causes pleasure. Representation indeed is nothing but a power of communication different from the power of verbal expression. It is for this reason that the Sage Bharata did not include the word Sthāyin in the Sūtra, not even in a different grammatical case, i.e., in the genitive case. Thus the Erotic Rasa is a mental state of love imitated. According to Bharata the erotic and the pathetic Rasas are born (prabhava) of the sentiments of love or sorrow respectively; while instead the other Rasas are made up of them (ātmaka). Thus what the Sage has said (that Rasas are made up of the Sthāyin and are born of them) is quite appropriate too. Hemachandra Quotes Dharmakirti's Verse
Further, it is found that even mistaken cognition is sometimes not without causal efficiency (Arthakriyā). To corroborate this dictum, Hemachandra quotes here a famous couplet of Dharmakirti, P. V. II. 57.74 Between two people approaching two lights, the one produced by a jewel, and the
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