Studies in Jain Literature

SR No.: 001868
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 114
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Story
File Size: 14 MB

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254 STUDIES IN JAIN LITERATURE Abhinavagupta himself uses this term precisely in this sense twice on the very next page; केवलमुपायवैलक्षण्यान्नामान्तरं प्रतिपद्यतां दर्शनानुमितिश्रुत्युपमितिप्रतिभानादिनामान्तरवत् / A. Bh. p. 277, 11. 8-9 The KLV interprets the line : 'For argument's sake we grant your point of view, viz, 'The Erotic sentiment is an imitation (anukarana) of the permanent mental state called rati. Now in this imitation of rati the dress, the gait etc., of the beloved become anukarya (things to be imitated). By virtue of their having the nature of anukarana they must have been given different names. But these socalled different names for the dress, the gait, etc., of the beloved are not to be found in the text of Bharata's NS. So your stand that Rasa is an imitation or reproduction (anukara, anukarana) of a sthayibhava such as rati etc., has no basis." This interpretation seems to be perfectly all right but for one inconvenient fact. It is true Bharata does not give different names to the imitation of dress, the gait, the speech, etc., of the beloved, he, however, gives a general name Lita : वागङ्गालङ्कारैः शिष्टैः प्रीतिप्रयोजितैर्मधुरैः / इष्टजनस्यानुकृतिर्लीला ज्ञेया प्रयोगज्ञैः // -NS XXII, 14 Abhinavagupta, however, has himself said in the present paragraph : कान्तवेषानुकारवद्धि न रामचेष्टितस्यानुकारः / -Vol I. p 276, 1.1 6. Fa fa 7722071741 ---KLV p. 306, 1 10 This comment comes in between ythifura 5179..f419TE I (=Y1H1fUTO utt.....fo HpTad A. Bh. Vol I, p. 276, 1. 17 and Th 7 urtea sfa i The present text of the A. Bh., however, does not have the reading tantra in the present context; it reads : rantai 7: unifad4244451fa TE FORTSATT I --Vol. I. p. 276, lines 17-18 Hemacandra, however, reads : यत्त्वन्यत्तत्प्रतीतिवैषम्यप्रसङ्गादि तत् कियदत्रोच्यताम् / Possibly the KLV might have read Ri f ad924. 7. Masson and Patwardhan observe : "On p. 274 (A. Bh. I) Abhinava begins his views, but it is not clear when they end....it is likely that this refers, not to Abhinavagupta, but a now lost commentary by Bhatta Tauta on the NS..." -Aesthetic Rapture, The following passage from the KLV is very eloquent on this point :