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'Classification of Poetry (Criticism Oriented)
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Thus, after establishing the separate and independent existence of the implicit sense in poetry, A. comes to establish that only this implicit sense alone is, be, principle (source of charm) in poetry. He observes at Dhv. I. 8 :
evam vācya-vyatirekiņo vyangyasya sadbhāvam pratipādya prādhānyam tasya eva iti darśayati -
sórthas tadvyakti-sāmarthya-yogi śabdaś ca kaścana, yatnataḥ pratyabhijñyau
tau śabdárthau mahākaveḥ." sa vyangyórthaḥ tad-vyakti-sāmarthya-yogi śabdaś ca kaścana, na sarvaḥ, tāv eva śabdárthau mahākaveḥ pratyabhijñeyau. vyangya-vyañjakābhyām eva hi suprayuktābhyām mahākavitva-lābho mahākavīnām, na vācya-vācaka-rac mātrena."
"Thus after establishing the existence of the implicit meaning as distinct from the explicit, the over-riding superiority of that meaning is demonstrated in what follows :
That meaning, and that rare word which possesses the power of conveying it, - only these two deserve the careful scrutiny of a first-rate poet. (I. 8)
'that meaning' refers to the implicit and 'that rare word which possesses the power of conveying it points out that it is not any and every word (recorded in the dictionary). Such a word and such a meaning, only these two, deserve the careful recognition of a first-rate poet. The status of first-rate poets is achieved only by the effective employment of suggested meanings and suggestive expressions and not by a mere use of conventional meanings and conventional words." (Trans. K. Kris. pp. 15, 17, ibid)
Ā. of course is careful to add that eventhough the relation of the suggestedsuggestor is of prime importance, the poet, to begin with, directs his efforts to the expressed and the expressor, i.e. conventional meaning and conventional word. This is explained by an analogy. Just as a man in quest of light for perception of objects, first takes care to secure a lamp, in the same way, a poet having regard for and ultimate interest in the suggested sense, first directs his efforts towards the conventional meaning. Ā. (Dhv. I. 10) suggests that just as the purport of a sentence is collected through the meaning of its individual components i.e. words in a sentence, similarly, the apprehension of that (= suggested) sense follows the
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