Dvyasrayakavya

SR No.: 006740
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyapal Narang
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi
Publication Year: 1972
Total Pages: 310
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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As a Mahākāvya
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(ii) FURIOUS (RAUDRA): Like the heroic, furious sentiment is also found in the Dvyāśrayakāvya in abundance. Profound use of harsh diction and cerebral words are in concordance with the furious sentiment.' Anger and deformity of the brows are the physical reactions depicted in the poem?.
(iii) DISGUSTFUL (BĪBHATSA) : This sentiment prevails in the battlefields where the bloodshed occurs and the fat of dead-bodies is being eaten by the Rākşasas.3 Vultures drag the flesh of the dead-bodies. There is no extraordinary expression of disgustful sentiment except that referred to above.
(iv) PATHETIC (KARUŅA): The objects of the description of the pathetic sentiments are the intense torture with anxiety and sorrow and pitiable condition of the body.4
(V) EROTIC (ŚRNGĀRA) : Both love in union (Sambhoga) and love in separation (vipralambha) are found in the Dvyāśrayakāvya. At a few places, due to the harshness of diction, there is no harmony of the language with the erotic sentiment. Sometimes, there are frank and nude descriptions in the poem.
The objects of the description of this sentiment in the poem are the erotic expression of the eyes ; the marks of nails on the body ; putting off the clothes and sexual intercoui se?. Showers of rain and humming of the bees are depicted as excitants,8 He has referred to the appointment of lovers
1. Dy. X. 55 ; XVIII. 12, 35, 39. 2. Dv. V. 49, 94, 99. 3. ibid., IT. 68. 4. Kumārapālacarita, VI. 55. 5. Dy. II. 159. 6. ibid., VIII. 135. 7. ibid., I. 30; II. 24; IX. 103 ; XI. 1-2 ; XVII. 40, 78 etc. 8. Kumārapālacarita, IV. 35; Dv. XVI. 74.