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and the aesthetic pleasare is also the ultimate fruition of vyutpatti and of karti (fame) too. He emphatically asstris : "Nor are priti and vyutpatti different from one another, for they both have the same source."9
From this discussion of Abhinavagupta it would seem that he does not differ with Anandavardhana as regards the ultimate aim of kavya. He makes explicit what Avandavardhana implies in the course of his discu. ssion of aucity, and of the predominaot rasa of the Mahabharata and the Rāmāyana (10) 9. (i) तत्र कवेस्तावत्कीयापि प्रीतिरेव संपाद्या । यदाह --'कीर्ति स्वर्गफलमाहुः' (वामन
काव्यालंकारसूत्र १.१.६-लो. २) इत्यादि । श्रोतृणां च व्युत्पत्तिप्रीती यद्यपि स्तः यथोक्तम्-धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु...(भामह-काव्यालङ्कार १२) तथापि तत्र प्रीतिरेव प्रधानम् ।... इति प्राधान्येनानन्द एवोक्तः । चतुर्वर्गव्युत्पत्तेरपि चानन्द एव पार्यन्तिकं . मुख्यं फलम् ।
Locana, pp. 40-41 . (ii) हृदयानुप्रवेशश्च रसास्वादमय एव । स च रसः चतुर्वर्गापायव्युत्पत्तिनान्तरीयकविभावादि
संयोगप्रसादोपनत इत्येवं रसोचितविभावादिद्युपनिवंद्ये रसास्वादवैवश्यमेव स्वरसभाविन्यां व्युत्पत्ती प्रयोजकमिति प्रीतिरेव व्युत्पत्तेः प्रयोजिका । प्रीत्यात्मा च रसः......न चैते प्रीतिव्युत्पत्ती भिन्नरूपे एव द्वयोरप्येकविषयत्वात् ।
Locana p. 336 (10)
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by J. L. Masson and M. V. Patwardhan, Deccan College, Postgraduate
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Kavyalaya Publishers, Mysore, 1954 4 Studies on Some Concepts Of The Alamkara Sastra
by V. Raghavan, The Adyar Library and Research Centre, Adyar, Madras,
1973 (Revised edn.) 5 Sanskrit Poetics by Krishna Chaitanya, Asia Publishing House,
___Bombay, 1965 6 Judgment In Literature, by W. Basil Worsfold, Bedford Street, London, 1917 7 What Is Beauty ? by E. F. Carritt, Oxford, 1932 8 The Theory of Beauty by E. F. Carritt,
University Paperbacks, Methuen London. 9 The History of Sanskrit Poetics by P. V. Kane, 3rd edn, Bombay, 1951 10 Saundaryamimamsa (in Marathi) by R. B. Patankar,
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