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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found on the Himalayas alone. A verse ( 89 ) which praises the several excellent qualities of the unique sandal tree mentions that it is not found anywhere except in the Malaya mountain. Similarly another verse ( 90 ) from the Kumārasambhava (1.7) of Kalidasa romantically refers to the Bhurjapatra as growing in the Himalayas. The examples of Guņaniyama gen. erally in poetic descriptions, state that the gems are only red, the flowers are white alone and the clouds are always dark. A verse illustrative of the redness of gems describes the gems being fancied as the red orb of the Sun. Another verse (92) compares the whiteness of flowers to the smile of Pārvati spreading over her lustrous and red lips. The next verse (93) describes the Puşpaka air-plane with Rāma, dark like a cloud sitting in it, appearing like a heap of gems studded with a dark precious jewel. Examples of Kriyāniyama (FZTÍTA) are conventions that describe the cuckoo bird warbling only in the Spring, though it does warble in real life in the Summer and the other seasons, and the singing and dancing by the peacock in the monsoon only (94-95).
The second interpretation of Niyama means regulation of colours such as black and blue, black and green, black and dark, yellow and red, white and fair as identical colours, and of the hare and the deer in the moon, the crocodile and the fish on the Cupid's banner, etc., as nondistinct. Illustra: tions of all these different examples are given. A verse (96) describes the crossing of the river Varņā by a king called Karua. Here the Nila stream of the river appears to match the dark mass of a damsel's hair. Here Nila and Krşnna are identical. An instance of the identity of black and green is met with in the verse (97) that follows. It invoke's the blue sapphire like waters of Yamunā and the green crystal - like waters of the Gangā, which mingle like Kțsna and Siva. Verse 98 illustrates the identity of black and dark (Krsna and Syāma) by dess cribing the nights in the celestial garden as dark, though they are black. Verse 99 presents identify of the red and the yellow
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