Srngaramanjari Katha

SR No.: 002914
Original Sutra Author: Bhojdev
Author: Kalpalata K Munshi
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Publication Year: 1959
Total Pages: 312
Language: Sanskrit, Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 21 MB

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THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK
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At the outset it would be proper to understand the technical character of rāga as conceived by Bhoja and other writers.
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In the SKA Bhoja mentions by name the three rāgas: Nīlī Kusumbha and Mañjisthā. In the SP however, the same topic has been treated with exhaustiveness and completeness in enumeration, classification and illustration,
Rāga is considered as one of the essential elements in developing the śrngärarasa,7 which is the foremost of the nine rasas usually accepted by the writers on poetics. The śrngārarasa—the sentiment of love is quite different from Bhoja's other Rasa-śrnyāra the conception of which is an original contribution of his to the science of Poetics. The later writers on poetics who quote Bhoja's authority on Śrngära betray confusion in understanding his theory of Rasa-Śrngāra, probably because of the employment by him of one and the same word, Srngāra, with two different connotations as well as by his insistence upon the importance of both the kinds of Śrngāra.
Bhoja's conception of Rasa-srngāra is given here in essence in order to distinguish it from the śrngāra-rasa of which rāga is an important element.
Bhoja's one and only Rasa-śrngāra is Abhimāna or Aharkāra which dwells in the soul of all persons and the difference in the degree of its intensity in a person is due to the experience of many past births. It is responsible for the emergence of other qualities and its presence endows a poem with elegance.
This fundamental state of rasa is called rasa of Parākoți.
In the second stage, the Madhyamāvasthā, the fortynine different bhāvas grow out of this rasa. Stimulated by Vibhāvas, Anu
6. V, 124 b,
ETHIOTTITETT TTTT: 7. Ibid, V, 11-12 a.
नायिकानायकगुणाः पाकाद्याः प्रेमभक्तयः। नानालङकारसंसृष्टे: प्रकाराश्च रसोक्तयः ।।
चतुविंशतिरित्यक्ता रसान्वयविभूतयः । 8. The following is based on chapters 18 and 19 in Dr. V. Raghavan's Bhoja's
Srngaraprakāśa (BSP). 9. SKA, V, 1, 2.
रसोऽभिमानोऽहंकारः शंगार इति गीयते। योऽर्थस्तस्यान्वयात्काव्यं कमनीयत्वमश्नुते ।। विशिष्टादृष्टजन्मायं जन्मिनामन्तरात्मसु । आत्मसम्यग्गुणोद्भूतेरेको हेतुः प्रकाशते ।।