Abhidha

Author(s): Tapasvi Nandi, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Bhoja does not go beyond laksaņā here. We know that Ānandavardhana has quoted the verse viz. vrīdāyogānnata. etc. with its fourth line ending in, "hāri-netra-tribhāgah once under Dhv. III 3, 4 - with the words : "padāvayavena dyotanam yathā.” Thus the part 'tribhāgah' of the whole compound is for him suggestive of 'rasa'. Elsewhere under Dhv. III. 33 also this illustration is quoted to explain how 'cestāvīs'esa' becomes suggestive of śộngāra-rasa. Under I. 19, Kuntaka also picks us this illustration to demonstrate – višeșana-vakratva, a variety of pada-pūrvārdha-vakratā. But Bhoja seems to be satisfied only with the secondary sense here, which is for him only 'a-samagra-ālokanam'. Similarly Bhoja's tad-anya-laksanā, which is illustrated by the famous verse : "suvarna-puspām prthivīm”... etc. also ends with laksyārtha only. Says he — "atra na suvarna-sabdārtho, na api puspa-śabdārthah kimtu suvarna-śabdena sarva-purusārtha-mülam hiranyam, puspa-śabdena ca prasavārtho laksyate. tābhyam ca lakṣitābhyām vyavasāyinām purusa-višesānām vasumatī sarvān kāmān prasūta iti. Bhoja does not go beyond this while we know that this verse is given by Anandavardhana under Dhv. I, 13, as an illustration of "a-vivakṣita-vācyadhvani.' Abhinavagupta in his locana on this explains both laksaņā and vyañjanā such as - (pp. 78, Edn. Dr. Nandi, Ahd. '97-'98) - "suvarṇāni puspyati iti suvarņa-puspā. etacca vākyam eva a-sambhavad-svār-tham iti kṛtvā avivaksita-vācyam. tata eva padārtham abhidhāya anvayam ca tātparya-śakty, avaga-mayya eva, bādhakavasena tam upahatya sādrśyāt sulabha-samțddhi-sambhāra-janatām laksayati. tal laksanā-prayojanam śura-krtavidya-sevakānām prāśastyam a-sabda-vācyatvena gopyamānam san nāyikā-kuca-kalasa-yugalam iva mahārghatām upanayan dhvanyate iti.” We do not know why Bhoja stops at lakṣaṇā only. But one thing is clear that though Bhoja does not mention 'vyangyartha' by name, he very much knows the same. In a number of illustrations of laksita-laksanā this is bourne out. He observes (pp. 236 ibid) - "anye punaḥ lakṣitalaksanām anyathā vyacaksate laksanayā upacaritavrttyā gaunyābhihitärthena yatra arthāntaram laksyate sā laksita-laksanā iti." - He illustrates such a