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“Dasarūpaka-Vicāra”
1747 Anandavardhana pays special attention to this point (already mentioned by us earlier) while speaking of prabandha-rasa-dhvani and rasaucitya ini uddyota III. He says : Sandhi-s and sandhanga-s are to be harnessed for the main object of developing the theme or rasa; they are not to be adhered to with the sole idea of devotion to Bharata's text.
"sandhi-sandhyanga-ghatanam rasābhivyakty apekṣayā, na tu kevalayā śāstra
sthiti-sampādanecchayā.” Dhv. III. 12. Anandavardhana explains this point on pp. 148, and 150 and cites counterexample of the Venisamhāra introducing Vilasa' inappropriately for the sake of following faithfully all that has been given in the text as anga-s. Vilāsa, as such, like 'narma' belongs to kaisikī vịtti and Srngāra-Nățaka-s. In those drama-s such angas will occur not once, not in the only one place where they have been enumerated, but often. In plays of fight such anga-s of arabhati as sampheta and vidrava will occur often, these will have no place in plays where they are not needed to develop the theme and rasa. Therefore, it does not hold good that sandhyanga-s are only so much as 64 in number; Bharata's list must be taken as indicating what the angas are, all possible situations and incidents are not exhausted by these. Though this point as such has not been pressed expressly by any writer, it has been pointed out by most dramaturgists that some anga-s may be left out and that the order of these may be otherwise also, changed to suit the needs of the dramatists. [Actually we have already indicated this in our observations earlier and we may quote Dandin, though observed in another context by him but also applicable here, that, “kas tān kārtneyena vaksyati ?”). In the above given quotation from Bhoja's Śr. Pra., we find Bhoja saying that the general rule is that all anga-s appear at their given places in the same order; but it must be understood that contexts need, not only omission of some, but also a change in the order. It must also be pointed out here that one anga will appear more than once, if need be. Udbhata did not realise this and seems to have said that the anga-s of the sandhis must appear in their given places. Abhinavagupta says in his A.bh.
"tena yad udbhața-prabhịtayaḥ angānām sandhau krame ca niyamam āhuḥ, tad uktā"gama-viruddham eva." - Vol. II. pp. 514, Mad. MS. [It is surprising that
navan does not look into the printed A.bh. in the G.O.S. Vol.s.; Sad.) (Same is the case with 'Locana').
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