Kalplata Vivek

Author(s): Murari Lal Nagar, Harishankar Shastry
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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20 given 10 dosas!. But they do not classify them. Vamana is perhaps the first to classify dosas into pada-dosa, padartha-dosa, vakya-dosa and vakyartha-dosa. He deals with 5 blemishes of Pada (word), five of Padartha (meaning of word), two of Vakya (sentence) and six of Vakyartha (meaning of a sentence).' Bhoja does not define a dosas in his Sarasvati-kanthabharana but classifies dosas into Pada-dosas, Vakyadosas, and Vakyartha-dosas, each variety having 16 dosas under it. None of these treats of Rasa-dosas. Rudrata is perhaps the first who includes a Rasa-dosa in his treatment of Dosas. It is Dhvanyaloka that gives a detailed treatment of Rasa-dosas, and following this Mammata has included Rasa-dosas in the chapter on dosas in his Kavya-prakasa. He divides dosas into four main types viz those pertaining to Pada (word), to Vakya ( sentence ), to Artha (sense ) and finally to Rasa ( sentiment). Of these Rasa-dosa is the most serious as Rasa is principal, next comes Artha-dosa for it is meaning (artha) that helps us apprehend Rasa and is thus subservient to the latter, last comes Pada-dosa, word (pada) belps understand the meaning and is therefore subservient to artha.T Kalpalata has followed Mammata in its treatment of dosas, as elsewhere, and classified them into four varieties viz Pada-dosa, Vakya-dosa Artha-dosa and Rasa-dosa. Accordingly the first section (Priccheda) is divided into four sub-sections thus : (1) Pada-dosas (Pp. 1 to 13). (2) Vakya-dosas (Pp. 13 to 24). (3) Artha-dosas (Pp. 24 to 78). (4) Rasa-dosas (Pp. 78 to 90 ). (1) Pada-dosas (P. 1, 1. 24): (1) Syuti-katu: (P. 1, 1. 25) Word or words, which are unpleasent to the ears are called Sruti-katu. It is of two types-pada-gata ( pertaining to a word), and samasa-gata (pertaining to a compound). The ill. of pada-gata-sruti-katu-dosa is : (P. 1, 1. 25 ) ananga-mangala-gyhapanga-bhangi-tarangitaih / alingitah sa tanvangya kartarthyam labhate kada // The ill.* of samasa-gata Sruti-katu is : (P. 1, 1. 26) 1. K. D. III. 125 & 126. 2. K. L. S. II, i. 4; II, i. 10; IT. i. 22; II. ii, 1; and II. ii. 9. 3. According to trac, a' in 'ar: 109 : etc.' S. K. 1. 3 c., furnishes a general definition of dosa, "Whatever is to be spurned is a dosa." 4. 'alar: qarat 9190191 919refai 7 PIEET I' S. K. I. 3 ab. 5. Cf. R. K. L. XI. 12 and 14. 6. Vide 477215) III. 7. faerataif's F9E199#TheTa on K. P. Vol. II (P. 8). . Both these ills. are given in the K.P.. Vide K.P. VII. v. 142 (P.247) and v. 170 (P.268).