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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THE JAIN VIEW OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE 345 According to him, the aesthetic pleasure or rapture is just like ordinary pleasures of sense, that arise, for instance, from pressing plump breasts of a beautiful young lady or from applying cool sandal paste to our bodies. Rasa is thus laukika and not alaukika. Rasa, by its very nature, being pleasurable he holds that there are only four rasas : 1. srngara 2. vira 3. hasya and 4. adbhuta. He rejects the claim of karuna, raudra, bibhatsa, and bhayanaka to the title of rasa?. The whole discussion of this topic is marked by originality, logical reasoning and freshness of outlook and deserves to be read in the originale. Siddhicandragani goes a step, and a very big step indeed, further than Ramacandra and Gunacandra in holding that there are four rasas only. The description of Aja-vilapa, or of santa or of bhayatisaya is aimed at showing the intensity of love towards Indumati, his beloved wife, or complete detachment or world-weariness of mumuksus or the tenderness or softness of a particular individual, respectively. In fact, however, poets undertake to describe such incidents, events or situations only to demonstrate their own descriptive power or the richness of their own imaginative faculty. This survey would show that there is nothing peculiarly Jain about their view of the nature of rasa. Along with other writers on poetics they take rasas to be laukika or alaukika, sukha-duhkhatmaka or sukhatmaka only. A "Moderner" like Siddhicandragani disregards tradition and holds that there are four rasas only. It is, however, very surprising, if not shocking, that none of these Jain authors and commentators takes cognizance of the "nava-kavva-rasa pannatta passage found in their sacred text, viz., the Anuyogadvarasutra. Notes and References : 1. Nandisuttam and the Anuogaddaraim, Jaina-Agama series No. 1. Shri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay, 1968. pp. 121-124. 2. ...साधारणीभावना च विभावादिभिरिति श्रीमानभिनवगुप्ताचार्यः / एतन्मतमेव चास्माभिरुपजीवितमिति / -Kavyanusasana (p. 103) (Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay 2nd revised edition, Bombay, 1964.) 3. तत्रेष्टविभावादिप्रथितस्वरूपसंपत्तयः शृङ्गार-हास्य-वीराद्भुत-शान्ताः पञ्च सुखात्मानोऽपरे पुनरनिष्टविभावाद्युप नीतात्मानः करुणरौद्र-बीभत्स-भयानकाश्चत्वारो दुःखात्मानः / यत् पुनः सर्वरसानां सुखात्मकत्वमुच्यते, तत् प्रतीत (? fa) antical -p. 141 (GOS, Baroda, 1959 edition) 4. poe afghafa rilas 911449f all दैन्ये दीनत्वमभ्येति स नाट्ये प्रेक्षकः स्मृतः // -Natyasastra (Ch. XXVII) --किन्तु तादृश एवासावानन्दः सुखदुःखात्मको यथा प्रहरणादिषु संभोगावस्थायां कुट्टमिते स्त्रीणाम् / अन्यश्च Stud.-44