Sahrdayaloka Part 03

SR No.: 006910
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 676
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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SAHRDAYĀLOKA it is accepted that the whole work of poetic composition should abound in different sentiments, the poet, desirous of achieving the greatness of his works, would delineate only one sentiment as the principal one. Dhv. III. 21 - observes :
"prasiddhépi prabandhānām nānā-rasa-nibandhane, eko rasóngīkartavyah
tesam utkarsam icchatā." (Trans. K.Kris., pp. 175, ibid): "Though there is a convention that more than one sentiment should find a place in entire works of literature, one of them alone should be made principal by the poet who aims at greatness in his works."
The Vștti on Dhv. III. 22 reads as : “prabandheșu prathamataram prastutaḥ san punaḥ punar anusamdhīyamānatvena sthāyī yo rasas tasya sakala-bandha-vyāpino rasántarair antarāla-vartibhiḥ samāveso yat sa náñgitām upahanti." . "When a sentiment happens to be intended as primary in a work and is kept up constant by being delineated again and again, its importance cannot be marred at all by the inclusion of other passing sentiments since it underlies all the rest." (Trans. K.Kris., pp. 175, ibid)
A. explains it further. He says that just as there can be principal action or plot of a composition even if it gets mixed with other sub-plots, in the same way there can be one principal sentiment (Dhv. III. 23). Ā. holds that not only sentiments such as vīra and śrngāra or śộngāra and adbhuta can be correlated as principal and subordinate, but also opposite type of sentiments such as śngāra and bībhatsa, vīra and bhayānaka, śānta and raudra, or śānta and śộngāra also can be correlated as such, if when one sentiment is principal, the other one is not fully aroused : Dhv. III. 24 observes -
"a-virodhi virodhi vā rasongini rasántare, pariposam na netavyas
tathā syād a-virodhitā.” (Trans. K.Kris., pp. 177, ibid) : "When a sentiment is delineated in a work as principal one, no other sentiment, whether un-opposed or opposed to it, should be treated elaborately. This will ensure one that no opposition between them will remain anymore.”