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SAHĶDAYĀLOKA Dhvani-virodha :
However, there still continued some opposition to the Dhavikāraś absolute supremacy. Voices were raised against dhvani in different quarters and Anandavardhana himself tried to answer some objections before presenting his scheme. But the fact is that the opposition was more to the concept of vyañjanā rather than the fact of implicit sense, whether it was named 'Dhvani' or otherwise.Actually nobody had any objection to the fact of the implicit sensepratīyamāna artha -in poetry and it was accepted by all either in the garb of a faint undertone or a powerful overtone. But the process of arriving or apprehending it in poetry created debate and Anandavardhanaś projection, or favour of vyañjanā as a separate and independent word-power caused many an eyebrow to rise with the result that in place of vyañjană a number of alternatives were pushed forward. We have taken care of all this inCh. IX on "vyañjanā-virodha" and there is no point in going through all that again. Actually 'dhvani-virodha' is more 'vyañjanā-virodha' and of course the terminology viz. dhvani' was also ridiculed to a great extent. We will look into the same here in a nut shel.
Jayadeva in his Vimarsini commentary alludes to the so-called dhvanivirodha in a well-known verse. He observes :
“tātparya-śaktir abhidhā lakṣaṇā’numiti dvidhā, arthāpattiḥ,kvacit tantram samāsóktkyādy alamkrtiḥ, rasasya kāryatā, bhogaḥ, vyāpārántara-bādhanam, dvādaśettham dhvaner asya
sthitā vipratipattaya).” Opposition to dhvani is twelvefold, says Jayadeva. They are that dhvani is negated by or is covered up by devices such as (i) tātparya-sakti, i.e. the sentence power of purport, (ii) abhidhā or the word-power of direct expression, i.e. denotation, (iii) (iv) two-fold laksaņā or the power of indication operating in two ways, (v) (vi) anumiti or inference, which is again two-fold-, (vii) arthāpatti or presumption i.e. argument or inference based on circumstances; (viii) tantra,i.e. double entendre (ix) alamkāras such as 'samāsókti' and the like, (x) the fact that
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