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Thus it is that we can appreciate Namisādhu (writer of a prestigious commentary on Rudrata's Kävyälankära when he postulates 'ultimate wisdom' (samyagjñāna) 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 Sarasvatikaṇṭhabharaṇa (Kavyamālā series, Bombay, 1925, p. 524-5) regards a dhira-santa (Lit. 'heroically tranquil') type of hero in this light itself when he postulates dhṛti or "steadiness of heart" as the ruling sentiment fostered by reflection of the highest Truth:
This is why the Jaina pontiff (chief priest) palyakirti is quoted by Raja-sekhara in his Kāvya-mimāṁsā (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 :
Kasyacidupasäntaprakṛteḥ dhira-santa-nayakasya
vastutattvalocan@dibhiḥ uddipyamanah...
Yeṣām vallabhaya samam
ksaṇamiva sphārā kṣapā kṣiyate teşam sitataraḥ sasi
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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
na virahah tenobhayabhramsinam indu rajati darpana
kṛtirayam nosno na vā śītalah
"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-prakāśa, Mysore edn., pt. I, p. 485) states unambiguously :
Rüpakadimalaikara bahyamacakşate pare... (1. 14)
That this is not a wild surmise, but a statement of fact is proved by Baṇabhaṭṭa's testimonia to this very view :
Gaudelvaksaradambaraḥ
Gauda matametat
"This is the view of Gaudas'.
(Harṣacarita 1.7)
आचार्यरल भी देशभूषण जी महाराज अभिनन्दन ग्रन्थ
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