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Śabdavrttis, the nature of : Abhidhā
283 with difference in the nature of the thing described. But he insists on six only. So, virtually there is no rhyme or rhythm in Bhoja's varieties except of course the outward system of dividing a point into six or twelve sub-varieites.
The 'upacāra' variety of gauni which is also six fold is explained as (pp. 229, ibid) : “mukhyayā gaunyā vā anya-viśesaṇasya satónyatra āropaņam upacāraḥ” tannimittaka-upacara-nimittā. sā tu gauna-vyavahitárthatvāt gauni bhavati, tasya api dharma-guna-āksti-kriya-svarūpa-jātyā”dayaḥ pravstti-nimitta-tad-bhedāt. sápi şad-prakāra bhavati-dharma-nimittā, guna-nimittā, āksti-nimittā, kriyā-nimittā, svarūpa-nimittā, jātinimittā ca."
We are reminded of the words of Viśvanātha in his Sāhityadarpaņa (S.D. II. 9. vịtti) viz. "upacāro nāma atyantam višakalitayoḥ padárthayoḥ sādņśyátiśayamahimnā bheda-pratīti-sthagana-mātram."
Bhoja holds that laksaņā is basically two-fold : (pp. 233, ibid) - “lakṣaṇā lakṣitalaksaņā ca. tayor yasyām upātta-śabdasya arthasya kriyāsiddhau sādhanarvaayogāt svārthóvinā-bhūtam arthántaram vyavahitam eva laksayati sā laksaņā, tadvyatiriktā tu vakşyamāna-anekarūpā lakṣita-lakṣaṇā iti.
tatra lakṣaṇā soļhā. sāmīpya-lakṣaṇā, sāhacarya-lakṣaṇā, saha-carita-lakṣaṇā, hetulakṣaṇā, tādarthya-lakṣaņā, parimāņa-laksaņā ca.
lakṣita-laksaņápi sodhaiva. rūļha-laksaņā, pratīka-lakṣaṇā, vivakṣita-lakṣaṇā, viruddha-laksanā, tad-anya-laksanā, prakīrna-laksanā ca.
It is surprising that Bhoja refuses to go beyond lakṣaṇā, especially in varieties called 'vivaksita-laksana' and viruddha-laksanā' which normally for a follower of the kashmir school, takes us further to vyañjanā and vyangyártha. Dr. Raghavan has also not discussed all this in details. On the contrary he has not at all chosen to treat the topic of sabdavrttis in Bhoja as an independent topic. Bhoja's illustration of vivaksita-laksanā follows his explanation of this variety such as : “yatra yathā-kathamcit śabdaprayoge vivaksitam eva laksyánusārato laksyate sā vivaksita-lakṣaṇā” (pp. 235, ibid) - The illustrations cited are - 'manasija-jaitraratham', etc. and, 'cakita-harini-hāri-netra-tribhāgah." Bhoja observes (pp. 235 ibid) - ‘atra na ardha-śabdasya tribhāga-sabdasya arthaḥ, kimtu, tābhyām asamagrā”lokanam lakṣyate. na hi bhavati netra-caturbhāgo netra-șadbhāgo vā iti."
Bhoja does not go beyond lakṣaņā here. We know that Anandavardhana has quoted the verse viz. vridāyogānnata. etc. with its fourth line ending in, "...harinetra-tribhāgah” once under Dhv. III. 3, 4; - with the words : “padāvayavena dyotanam yathā.” Thus the part 'tribhāgah' of the whole compound is for him
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