________________ 94 diction as found in dramatic compositions or (iii) various styles of poetical compositions. (114) Guna vivecauam (P. 91, I. 1.), In this section (pariccheda) gunas (excellences) of Poetry are dealt with. The definition of gunas of Kavya is not traceable in Viveka. According to Vamana gunas are properties which give rise to the beauty of Poetry ( kavya-sobha).' Both alamkaras and gunas heighten the charm of Poetry. There is a controversy regarding the distinction between the two. According to Vamana gunas give rise to beauty, which is augmented by alamkaras, 3 According to Dhvanyaloka and the followers of Dhvani school gunas are the intrinsic and inherent qualities of Rasa and bear same relation to Poetry as the qualities like valour (saurya) etc. bear to the body, for they too in here in the soul. 4 The gunas, therefore, stand in vivid contrast to tbe alarkaras (both of sound and sense) which belong to the body of Poetry and not to Rasa its soul, in the same way as the ornaments belong to the body and pot to the soul. Mammataand Hemacandra follow this view. There are some who do rot believe in guch a distinction between gunas and alamkaras, which according to them are on the same footing, the supposed distinction being rather cor ventional than real.' It does not seem proper to suppose that Dandi does not make any distinction between gunas on the one hand and alamkaras on the other, o for the following reasons: (i) He calls slesa etc, the gunas of Vaidarbha marga, while he speaks of svabhavakhyana etc. as alamkriyah. 9 (ii) He does not refer to gunas as alamkaras at K. D. II. 3. The word 'alamkriyah' there refers to the three figures of sound viz. 1. Here (P. 90, 1. 2) Viveka borrows from ea. (Pp. 364&365) and at P. 90, 1. 15 on wards from Locana (Pp. 364-365). 2 #51877197: Fafti qaf JUT: 1 V. K. L. S. III i 2. %. afastaa Fanart: V.K.L. S. III i 2. Bharata defines Gunas as the Reverse of Dogas vide N.S.XV1.96. of Vamana's definition of dosas : gufaqa gira at: V.K.L.S.lil. 4. J aarga astui a Lyo: at:1 Bioferarhamat:#-a2|:*270aa 11 89. 111. 6. 5. K. P. VIII, 1. A tarifat gaf: stafaz fatiha: 1 390eaneat ay: &ell 6. Go sta Tae JUTT: 1 & e' H. K. S. (P. 275). 7. vide K, P. VIII (P. 389). 8. vide Bhoja's Sr. Pr. Vol. I. Part II. (P. 301) 9. Half-arifa hiiregat: anayefa41: 1 K. D. II. 3.
