Sahrdayaloka Part 01

SR No.: 006908
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 602
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 14 MB

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Chapter 1
Pratīyamāna artha
OR Implicit sense, - as seen in the earlier ālamkārikas such as Bhāmaha, Daņdin etc.
Some of the greatest exponents of the dhvani school such as Anandavardhana (middle of the 9th Cen. A.D., De, pp. 101), Abhinavagupta (1015 A.D.), Ruyyaka (IInd and Illrd quarters of the 12th Cen. A.D., De, pp. 181;) and Jagannātha (17th Cen. A.D., De, pp. 231, SK. Poetics; 1620 A.D. to 1660 A.D.-) hold that the earlier writers such as Bhāmaha and the like, though they had not defined either vyañjanā or dhvani, were more or less familiar with the fact of dhvani.
Anandavardhana observes : "yadyapi ca dhvani-sabda-samkirtanena kavyalaksana-vidhāyibhir gunavṛttir anyo vā na kaścit prakāraḥ prakaśitaḥ, tathápi amukhya-vịttyā kāvyesu vyavahāram darśayatā dhvanimārgo manāk sprstopi na lakṣita iti parikalpya evam uktam, 'bhāktam āhus tam anye' iti.” - (Dhv. I. i, aloka; pp. 4, Edn. K. Krishnamoorthy, Dharwad, '74)
Abhinavagupta in his Locana on Dhv. I. i, (above passage), tries to explain as to who were the ālamkārikas referred to by Anandavardhana - Says he - (pp. 16, Edn. Dr. T. S. Nandi, Dhv. with Locana, Ahd. '97, '98) :
darśayatā iti, bhatrodbhata-vāmanā"dinā. bhāmahena uktam - "sabdas' cchando'bhidhānárthāh” iti. abhidhānasya sabdad bhedam vyākhyatum bhatdbhato babhāṣe - śabdānām abhidhānam abhidhāvyāpāro mukhyo, guņa-vịttis' ca. Vāmanópi 'sādrsyallaksanā vakroktih' iti. manāk sprsta iti. tais tāvad dhvani-digunmīlitā, yathālikhita-pathakais tu svarūpa-vivekam kartum aśaknuvadbhih tat