Kalplata Vivek

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

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24 (ii) (P. 9, 1. 14) When a word is, by one's own imagination, used to express some particular meaning without any warranty of usage or convention, it is Asamsaya type of Apratita. e.g. asva-yosin-mukharcisman, when used to convey the sense of submarine fire', it is Apratita of the second type. (9) Gramya : (P. 9, 1. 14) Whatever word is improper to a particular context is Gramya. It is of two types, Vakty-gramya and Vastu-gramya. Vaktr-gramya is the violation of the rules about the proper mode of address to be used by the three types of characters 8 viz uttama (high), madhyama (middling ) and adhama (low). Vastu-visayaka-gramya : (P. 9, 1. 24.) If a word having two meanings, one decent and the other indecent, evokes the indecent import even when it is employed in its decent sense, this Gramya-dosa arises. The ill. (P. 9, 1, 24) is : var ayati sakhi tasya yatha yatha tatha tatha sapi / rodititaram varaki baspa-bhara-klinna-ganda-mukhi // 6 Here *baspa-klinna-ganda-mukhi' (whose cheeks are wet with tears) evokes an indecent sense (viz whose face has on it a putrid boil ), hence it is Gramya'. (P. 9, 1. 26 ) Sometimes such a use ceases to be offensive when on account of the particular case-ending, an indecent word does not evoke the memory of its indecent sense. The ill. (P. 9, 1. 26 ) is : 1. पदमपरमप्रतीत यद्यौगिकरूढशब्दपर्याय / aferari alearlyTear 4fqgaifauna | R. K. L. VI. 13. 2. यदनुचितं यत्र पदं तत्तत्रैवोपजायते ग्राम्यम् / achatafani farhaard far wala u (ibid) VI. 17. 3. वक्ता त्रिधा प्रकृत्या नियतं स्यादधममध्यमोत्तमया / an a prefera aqresa qayereja II (ibid) VI, 18. 4. Kalpalata borrows here from Rudrata's Kavyalamkara and from Namisadhu's Vitti on it. In interpreting R. K. L. VI. 17 ff. the author of Kalpalata seems to have followed Namisadhu, but we think that the illustrations given by Rudrata at R. K. L. VI. 19 & 20, are illustrations of Vaktr-visaya-gramya, which he defines at R. K. L. VI. 18, while Gramya pertaining to Vastu ( theme or description ) is defined at R. K. L. VI. 21 and illustrated at. (ibid) VI, 22. It appears that Mammata (K. P. P. 371 ) and Hemacandra (H, K. S. P. 178) take R. KL. VI. 19 and 20, to be illustrations of Vaktr-visayaka-gramya, though according to both of them this is a Rasa-dosa. Hemacandra even quotes Rudrata. 5. R. K. L. VI. 21. 6. (ibid ) VI, 22. 7. epeffastnanigraxisfa aut trafaretat i 379fganti gala are acc #19 II (ibid) VI. 23.