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"Concept of Rasa" as seen in Anandavardhana and......
"alamkṛtīnām saktāv
apyā"nurūpyeṇa yojanam,
prabandhasya rasā"dīnām
vyañjakatve nibandhanam." (Dhv. III. 14)
(Trans. K.Kris., pp. 135, 137 ibid)
"Construction of only such a plot, either traditional or invented, as is charming with its decorum (of the accessories of sentiment, viz.,) stimuli of setting, abiding emotions, emotional responses, and passing moods. (III. 10)
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"If in a theme, adapted from a traditional source, the poet is faced with siuations conflicting with the intended sentiment, his readiness to leave out such incidents and inventing in their place even imaginary incidents with a view to delineating the intended sentiment: (III. 11)"
"The construction of divisions and subdivisions of the plot only with a view to delineating sentiments and not at all with a desire for mere conformity to rules of poetics" (III. 12)
"Bringing about both the high tide of sentiment and its low ebb appropriately in the work; preserving the unity of the principal sentiment from beginning to end (III. 13)
A discrete use of figures of speech even when the poet is capable of using them in any number; such are the conditions which underlie the suggestiveness of a whole work of literature in regard to sentiments etc." (III. 14) (Trans. K. Kris.)
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A. has supplied illustrations of all these practical observations. According to him, a whole composition thus not only by itself suggests rasa, but successively by degrees also, through instances of "samlaksya-krama-dhvani" contained in it. : "na kevalam prabandhena sākṣād vyangyo raso, yāvat pāramparyeṇā'pi iti darśayitum upakramate", observes the Locanakara, on Dhv. III. 15. A. illustrates this in the speech of Pāñcajanya in Madhu-mathana-vijaya or as in 'Viṣama-bāṇa-līlā”, when Kāmadeva meets his friends. Abhinavagupta explains fully how these speeches of Pañcajanya, Yauvana, etc., ultimately help the evocation of the principal rasa. It is also found illustrated in the famous "grdhra-gomāyu-samvāda" in the Mahabharata. Abhinavagupta (Locana, Dhv. III. 15) observes that the santarasa is fully realized here : "sa cabhiprayo vyaktaḥ śāntarasa eva parinisthitatām prāptaḥ" - Ā. observes that the rasā”di dhvani is also suggested by case-terminations (= sup), conjugational terminations (= tin) number (= vacana), relation (= sambanha),
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