Jaina contribution to Indian Poetics

SR No.: 250150
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K Krishnamoorthy
Publisher: Z_Deshbhushanji_Maharaj_Abhinandan_Granth_012045.pdf
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 2
Language: English
Classification: Article & Society
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Thus it is that we can appreciate Namisadhu (writer of a prestigious commentary on Rudrata's Kavyalankara when he postulates 'ultimate wisdom (samyagjnana) as the sthayibhava of santa-rasa (Op. cit. XVI. 15). This idea came to be adopted later by the highest Hindu authorities also like Abhinavagupta. Bhoja in his Sarasvatikanthabharana (Kavyamala series, Bombay, 1925, p. 524-5) regards a of heart" as the ruling sentiment fostered by reflection of the highest Truth : Kasyacidupasantapraksteh dhira-santa-nayakasya vastutattvalocanadibhih uddipyamanah... This is why the Jaina pontiff (chief priest) palyakirti is quoted by Raja-sekhara in his Kavya mimamsa (Gaekwad Oriental Series Edn., 1934, p. 46) as saying that 'to a lover sporting in his beloved's company and passing the whole night like a moment, the moon might appear cool ; while to another man love-lorn and suffering pangs of separation from his sweetheart, the same moon light be veritably a scorching fire like a comet. But to a monk like me, who has no wife, and no separation either, the moon is but a round mirror in shape, neither hot nor cold : Yesam vallabhaya samam ksanamiva sphara ksapa ksiyate tesam sitatarah sasi virahimamulkeva santapaklt asmakam na tu vallabha na virahah tenobhayabhramsinam indu rajati darpana kstirayam nosno na va sitalah IV Jaina writers like Manikyacandra also furnish authentic information about lost works in Indian poetics. We know that all works on poetics before Bhamaha's Kavyalankara have been lost by the ravages of time. When Bhamaha refers to a view of earlier thinkers as in Rupakadimalarkaram bahyamacaksate pare... (I. 14) "Others observe that figures of speech like metaphor are 'external, because they hold grammatical accuracy of nouns and verbs to be the first norm of figurative beauty !". How are we to know who these 'others' are ? Manikyacandra in his Sanketa (Kavya-prakasa, Mysore edn., pt. I, p. 485) states unambiguously : Gauda-matametat "This is the view of Gaudas'. That this is not a wild surmise, but a statement of fact is proved by Banabhatta's testimonia to this very view : Gaudesvaksaradambarah (Harsacarita 1.7) आचार्यरत्न श्री देशभूषण जी महाराज अभिनन्दन अन्य.