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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SAHṚDAYALOKA
(Trans. K.Kris., pp. 329, ibid): 'Where studious technical skill is superseded by the prominence given to the inner nature of things, where beauty is felt due to sympathy by men of taste who are experts in enjoying sentiments etc..."
The vṛtti (pp. 46, ibid) reads as: "anyac ca kidṛśaḥ ? rasă"di-paramartha-jñamanaḥ-samvada-sundaraḥ. rasaḥ śṛngārā"dayaḥ. tad ädigraheņa ratya"dayópi grhyante. teṣām paramarthaḥ paramarahasyam." (Trans. K.Kris., pp. 332, ibid) : "Further, the style is characterised as that 'where beauty it felt due to empathy by men of taste who are expert in enjoying the essence of sentiments and the like. Sentiments are erotic and so on. By 'and the like', are meant dominant moods such as 'love'. Their essence is their highest secret." While dealing with 'saubhagya' guna, the critics are described as 'sarasa"tma' i.e. ardra-cetas. VJ. I. 56 reads as (pp. 69, ibid) -
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"sarva-sampat-parispanda
sampadyam sarasā❞tmnām,
alaukika-camatkāra-kāri kāvyaika-jīvitam."
(Trans. K.Kris., pp. 355, ibid): "It is something attained by the full co-operation of all the constituent elements and it is something which surely results in an extraordinary aesthetic effect in the mind of the connoisseurs, in short it is the whole and sole essence of poetry."
K. also seems to take rasa as the soul of poetry. He declares it categorically that prabandha-vakrata is the highest form of vakrókti. In an antar-śloka i.e. a mnemonic verse, under IV. 26, K. observes: (pp. 283, ibid)
"vakratóllekha-vaikalyam a-sat-kävye vilokyate, prabandheṣu kavindrāṇām kirti-kandeṣu kim punah."
(Trans. K.Kris., pp. 577, ibid)
"Absence of literary beauty may be found only in bad literature. How can it even have place in the great works of master-poets, works which are the shiningshoots of their immortal glory ?"
These Prabandhas or compositions on which the fame of great poets rests, are full of 'rasa', they are (under IV 4, antara śloka-13): (pp. 252, ibid)