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

Page 307

Śabdavṛttis, the nature of Abhidhā
Bhoja further observes:
tad āha -
"rūḍhya yatra sad arthópi loke śabdo niveśitaḥ
sa mukhyas tat sāmyāt gauņónyatra skhalad-gatih"
yadā tu sabdaḥ svarthaṭaḥ kriyāsiddhau sadhana-bhāvam gantum asamarthaḥ, tada abhidheya-avinābhūtam arthántaram lakṣayati. tadā sā ca lakṣaṇā vṛttiḥ. yathā gangāyām ghoṣaḥ prativasati. atra gangā-śabdo visiṣṭodaka-pravāhe nirudha'bhidhāna-śaktiḥ. sa ca ghoṣa-kartṛkāyāḥ prativasana-kriyāyā adhikaraṇabhavam gantum asamarthaḥ, svārthávinābhūtam taṭam lakṣayati." (pp. 223, ibid)
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This means Bhoja is absolutely clear about the concepts of abhidha, and also gauņi and lakṣaṇā and surely he had read what Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta had written. But he chooses a different tradition which recognises 'gauni' as an independent vṛtti from lakṣaṇā, as seen later also in Hemacandra. But what Bhoja does is still different. Over and above taking gauņi and lakṣaṇā as separate functions, he clubs them together as extension of abhidha and thus his abhidha is wide enough to contain these two in its fold. This is, as observed earlier, like Mukula.
He then quotes from Kumarila viz. "abhidheyávinabhūta-pratītir lakṣaṇā" and calls it the life of artful expression: "sā eṣā vidagdha-vakrokti-jīvitam." Now this expression makes it clear that he appreciates the concept of 'vicitra-abhidha' of Kuntaka, and in the same way he absorbs the influence of Vamana also. Who suggested: "sādṛśyāt lakṣaṇā vakroktiḥ". (KSV. IV. iii 8).
Bhoja then attempts the classification of the three-fold abhidha, out of which the first viz. mukhyā, which is pure abhidhā for the kashmir school, is two-fold: "tatra mukhyā dvidhā, tathā-bhūtárthā, tad-bhāvā"pattiś ca" (pp. 223, ibid). Then, he proceeds: "tatha bhūtárthā ṣoḍhā, jāti-viṣayā, vyakti-viṣayā, ākṛti-viṣayā, guṇaviṣayā, kriyā-viṣaya sambandha-viṣayāś ca iti."
Now, it may be said that the divisions and subdivisions suggested here and also elsewhere normally are six or twelve. This is Bhoja's special feature. Again, here also, the sub-divisions of 'tathābhūtártha mukhya' which are six, go by the difference in the nature of the objects described. These are broad divisions seen in the word and there is hardly anything special to be noted. Though Bhoja has taken 'sahitya' in a very wide sense and his concept covers sastra-bhāṣā and loka-bhāṣā