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day looks like so much dazzling white liquid that you almost think it is a substance to be carried in a pitcher or a vessel. In a four-line verse ( 78 ), the poet describes the moonlight by comparing its intensity on an earlier occasion when it appeared as charming as the juice obtained by mechanically crushing the petals of a Ketaka plant and possessed the beauty of the weaving of a peari.necklace and today, when the moon is shining in its full glory, it has become fit to be collected in a pitcher, in the cavity of the folded hands and to be drunk by lotus-stalks.
The mention of a quality which does not actually exist in a thing is explained in the gloss as evident in the acription of whiteness to glory, laughter, etc., of blackness to infamy, sin, etc., of redness to anger and attachment. In all, six verses (79-84) are quoted to illustrate these qualities. The verse (79) which describes the whiteness of glory states that a certain king's boundless glory filled the three worlds and made them dazzingly white like the milky ocean. Here the quality of whiteness is shown to be present in glory. In the same way, laughter is conventionally depicted as all white. Verse No. 80 describes the uproarious laughter of Lord Śiva which is fancied to be the milky ocean drunk by him at the time of total destruction of the universe. Here the poet wants to bring out the extreme whiteness of the laughter of Lord Siva. Just as glory and laughter are all white, so infamy or bad fame as well as sin are supposed to be black, atleast poetically. Verse 81 of the super--commentary describes the glory of the hero and the infamy of his enemies as spreading together like the (white) Malati garland interspersed with the dark lotuses. Here glory is compared to the white Malati flowers whereas infamy bears likeness with the blue or dark lotuses. In the next verse, the poet utilises the popular convention that sin is black. Hayagriva, a demon who had committed the sin of vowing to destroy the race of Keśava, lost the lustre of his body which became black like the blades of a drawn sword as if through
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| SR No. | 001713 |
| Book Title | Kavyanushasana Critical Study |
| 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 |