Book Title: Sambodhi 1984 Vol 13 and 14
Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, Ramesh S Betai, Yajneshwar S Shastri
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
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R. S. Betai
Väkyavinyasa Kärikäs शाणाल्लिखितमाणिक्यकान्तिकलिपदं पदम् । अर्धनारीश्वरस्पर्धी यत्र सङ्घट्टनक्रमः ॥ गिरां किमपि लावण्यं तरङ्गयति यः परम् । वस्तु किश्चिदिवाभाति न किञ्चिदपि यद्वशात् ॥ मज्जतीव क्षणं चेतः स्नातीव सुधया क्षणम् । मायतीव क्षणं यत्र विलीयत इव क्षणम् ॥ अमन्दतद्विदानन्दकन्दकन्दलनाम्बुदः । कोऽप्यसौ वाक्यविन्यासः कन्ध इति स्मृतः ॥ ।२.१७.२०॥
Here, in the four karikas, first of all, NPS expresses these- main thoughts about Vakyaviayosa or Kavyabandha.
(1) Words to be used in Kavya should be those that are very carefully chosen, they should be lustrous, as it playing most naturally in the poetie composition. Words of our daily use strike on and get sharpened by being scratched on a grindstone in form of the Pratibha of the poet and attain to a uniquely novel, and indescribable artistic shape. Every word used in Kavya should strike us, as a lustrous jewel, as sahsdaya readers.
(2) Word and word as also word and meaning in Kāvya are so very much indivisible, conjoined and fully befitting one with the other that, while reading a poctic composition and tasting of its sweetness and charm, the readers experience only their oneness and unity, and their invariable association. This leads to the experience of the picture of a unique wholesome beauty in Kavyal. Every Kavya is charming, beautiful, swect and delightful in its own way. The sanghatanakrama in Kavya bcing competitive with Ardhanorifrara is precisely this
(3) When a poem is enjoyed as one, as a unity, in its wholesomeness, naturally this becomes possible because the words used by a poet become eloquent and lively with an extraordinary, uncommon meaning. This leads to an aesthetic experience that is awe-inspiring. This capacity of yielding an indefinably excellent novel aesthetic experience and aesthetic delight that is found in a poet's speech, moves sportively like the waves of flowing and running water. This poetic speech now may and then may not give a faint picture to some extent of poetic matter. This should lead us to conclude that in poet's speech, both Vacya and Vyangya are
