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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[OCTOBER, 1894.
Here the Poetical Fancy consists in the suggestion that Sîta's arms became languid because they took the character of two lotuses. That is to say, the occasion of the Poetical Fancy is that her arms were languid. It was a natural, actual, circumstance, and not an imaginary one.
Again :Her brows are arched, as though she were in anger at the unfaithfulness of her lover.
Here the occasion of the Poetical Fancy is the beautiful curve of the Heroine's eyebrows. This is a natural and not an imaginary fact. The Fancy suggests that the cause of this characteristic is the auger of the lady.
A Poetical Fancy depending on an Effect or Purpose (phalotprélish) is also divided, like that depending on a cause, into two classes, as the Occasion is Actual or Natural (siddharishayá phalotpréksha or siddhúspada phalotprékshá) or Imaginaryasiddhavishaya phalotprékshú or asiddháspadaphalôturékshá).
An example of a Poetical Fancy depending on Effect in its simplest form is the one given in the Bhasha-bhushana :
The lotus ever worships the water-goil, as though to obtain a beauty equal to that of thy feet."
Here the suggestion is that the abiding of the lotus in the water is an act of worship for the purpose of obtaining more perfect beauty.
The following is an example of the Occasion (aspada) being Actual (siddha) :The Creator made her bosom exuberant, as though to cause her hips to sway by its weight.
Here the graceful swaying of the bips is suggested as possessing the character of being the effect of the weight of the bosom. The occasion (aspada) of the Poetical Fancy is the actual fact of the weight of the bosom. Hence the Poetical Fancy is siddhúspada,
Again :
He abandoned his home anul friends and ran to Rána, as though he were a miser running to loot a treasure.
Here the runner is imagined in the character of a miser, and the running of the miser is the effect of the desire for wealth, just as the running of the other was the effect of his love to Rania. The occasion of the Poetical Fancy is the running to Rama and was an actual, not an imaginary, circumstance.
An example of a Poetical Fancy depending on a Purpose, with an Imaginary Occasion is the following :
Such was her beauty that her ornaments could not enhance it. They were but as thougle the Crector, to preserve her pure fairness from defilement, hai laid them there as mats on which to wipe the feet of prurient gazes that approachel her.
Here the suggestion is that the ornaments were placed upon her body for the purpose of protecting her from defilement, and not to enhance her beauty. The occasion (aspadu) of the Poetical Fancy is the imaginary supposition that the ornaments do not enhance her beauty. There is also the imaginary circumstance suggested that eyes have feet, and that their gaze cau be wiped on anything. Hence the occasion, indeed the whole basis of the Fancy, is imaginary and the utprékshu is asiddhúspada.]
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Atibayoktyalankara. Atibayokti rapaka jana.
kévala-hi upamana ! Kanaka-latá para chandramá
dharai dhanukha dvai vána il 72 11 sarahnava guna éka kau
qurahi' para thaharái ! Sudhá bharyau yaha vadana tua chanda kahai baurái | 73 11
