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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"Concept of Rasa” as seen in Anandavardhana and......
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ato manovikārasya
bhāvatvam prakațīkstam.” This can be read with DR. II. 33b (pp. 112, ibid) :
“nirvikārātmakāt sattvād
bhāvas tatrā"dya-vikriyā.” Dhanika writes : (pp. 112, ibid) - tatra vikārahetau saty a-vikārā”tmakam sattvam. yathā Kumārasambhave (3/40) - "srutāpsarogītirapi... samadhibhedaprabhavā bhavanti.” tasmāda-vikāra-rūpāt sattvāt yaḥ prathamo vikāróntar viparivarti-bijasya ucchūnatā iva sa bhāvah."
Now this exhibition of philosophical information on the part of śā. is not in good taste. Anandavardhana and Abhinavagupta had written a number of philosophical works and were great yogins themselves, but they have never engaged themselves in such showmanship.
On the contrary Abhinavagupta clearly says that we do not believe in such activity and do not drag in unnecessarily innocent souls in this sort of a mire.
Actually the four-fold anubhāvas that the Mālava school advocates, are nothing else but pure anubhāvas i.e. mental and physical responses to an emotion, with manas, vāk gātra and buddhi playing major roles. In fact all activity is having a mixture of all these four factors but here they are named or classed differently taking into account the predominance of this or that element. Virtually anubhāvas are 'acting'. The DR. has discussed twenty ornaments of young ladies..
"yauvane sattvajāḥ strīņam
alamkārās tu viņśatiḥ." (DR. II. 30a, pp. III, ibid) Śā. has utilized all these in his various types of anubhāvas, as we will go to observe next. Śā. observes that (according to the tradition as read in Bharata),
"vāgbhir angair mukha-rasair yas sattvábhinayena ca, bhāvayan bahir antassthān arthān bhāva udāhstaḥ.” (pp. 8, ibid)