Makaranda Madhukar Anand Mahendale Festshrift

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre

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Anandavardhana's Contribution to Research Methodology
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Refined critics can be educated even by a mere indication of the direction. With their enlightened minds they will guess aright everywhere. Ananda contented himself with indicating the broad types of Dhvani-varieties. He says that innumerable varieties of Dhvani were possible;
एवं ध्वनेः प्रभेदाः प्रभेदभेदाश्च केन शक्यन्ते ।
संख्यातुं दिङ्मात्रं तेषामिदमुक्तमस्माभिः ॥ It may be pointed out here that Abhinavagupta gives 9940 varieties whereas Mammața's figure is 10455. But when we see the preponderance of minute classification and subtle hairsplitting arguments in the Dhvanyāloka we may feel that Ananda has wasted his energy on matters insignificant in respect of literary criticism. But we must not forget that Ananda is an ancient writer living in an age when the whole atmosphere was permeated with a love for philosophical argument and logical subtlety.
Ananda refrains from illustrating the blemishes seen in the works of great poets. He feels that a loud exposure of the defects of great men who have the bright light of a thousand good sayings about them would amount to a censure of the critic himself; सूक्तिसहस्रद्योतितात्मनां महात्मनां दोषोद्घोषणमात्मन एव दूषणं भवतीति न विभज्य दर्शितम् ।
Ananda's foremost aim was to establish the existence of the pratīyamāna sense. About the function which was required to convey that sense, opinions might differ-he himself has acknowledged this and on his part he thought vyañjanā or suggestion as the most logical and convenient way of revealing that sense : arach raucurata faini usaha ATUT: TG Curts - इत्यस्माभिरभ्युपगतम् । तस्य चैवमपि न काचित् क्षतिः । तद्धि व्यञ्जकत्वं लिङ्गत्वमस्तु अन्यद्वा प्रसिद्ध शब्दप्रकारविलक्षणत्वं शब्द व्यापारविषयत्वं च तस्यास्ति-इति नास्त्येवावयोविवादः ॥ On the whole, the style of Ānanda is very similar to the style adopted in the research works of modern days.
Conclusion
The conclusion of Ananda recalls to the reader the claim made in the introduction and then, on the basis of the whole argument of the work, it reiterates in summary form the findings and this restatement highlights the soul of the argument in his work. Ananda in his conclusion says that the
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