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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Kavyabandha or Vakyavinyasa
jointly at work. Vyangya of course as also Vacya should be precise, effective, beautiful, unparallelled in Kavya. Only when this happens, will the oneness of the hearts of Sahrdayas, who are to be won over with Vyajand of Kavya at its supreme heights, become possible.
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(4) Through the reading of such a Kavya, the Sahrdaya reader has varied delighting experiences, which win over oneness with him, bring about Samvada of the emotions of the heart with those of Kävya. He gets totally merged in, lost as it were, in the all-pervasive Ananda of otherworldly taste of Rasas. We can go a step further and say that this experience of wonder, of awe is not momentary or confined only to the time of reading. Even when he later remembers his experiences when he read and enjoyed Kavya and got lost in the Ananda that it yielded, the whole experience is refreshed and he is again overcome by that same merger in the Kavyabhavas that he experienced at the time of reading.
With these four basic points laid down in the Karikas, NPS further analyses these four and other allied points and tries to throw further light on Vakyavinyasa, in the Vetti.
The Padas used in Kävya, must of necessity, be bright and also lustrous. Here, being lustrous does mean being endowed with Kantiguṇa but not that only; it also means the Padas becoming rich in exquisitely. fine sense and thus highly effective and appealing.
The Bandha like Ardhanarisvara means that we should not come across in Kavya, the slighest apprehension or consciousness of the joints between word and word, word and sense, sentence and sentence, and so on. Here, in every respect, we must experience only unity, oneness; it shall ever be wonderful unity, in which the links between meaning and emotion, emotion and emotion etc., get lost.
The Vakyavinyasa of a poet brings about a constant flow of the charm, delicacy, sweetness and artfulness of Kavya, it flows as if in waves, and endless series that is regular, shapely and effortless.
The peculiar trait of Kavya as Kavya, as NPS explains further, is that the ordinary becomes extra-ordinary, the unpalatable becomes palatable, the dull becomes extremely charming. This explains the Alaukikatva of Kavya in a way.
Again, this Vakyavinyasa endows Kävya with an inherent capability to attract in an unusual as also uncommon and extraordinary