Sambodhi 1998 Vol 22

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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THE MANGALA VERSE
dropped in the shaking of her arms at the time of the attempt to remove her bodice-expand your love I the gingling resembling the ring of the flute played to the dancing of youthfulness 1)
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Here the sentence concludes at 'tanotu vah but the qualification 'navavayolläsyäya venusvanah' is thrown in, after the sentence has been completed, without matenally adding to the beauty or intensity of the effect already produced
This dosa is based on logical relevance The Naiyäyıkas have devoted considerable attention to the problems of the logical conditions of the constituent words coming into relation with one another in a sentence They affirm that there are three conditions viz, äkänksä (logical dependence of one word upon another word), yogyata (mutual compatibility) and sannidhi (proximity) A sentence understood to be completed when the akansä is satisfied It is of two kinds 1 utthita-äkänsä (spontaneous) and 2 utthäpyaäkänksä (occasioned by after thought) In the given context the blemish of samaptapunarätta anses from having recourse to the second type of äkänksä In the instance quoted above the addition of the last clause 'navavayoläsys venusvanah' only ends in repetition without satisfying any logical requirement But if an additional meaning is conveyed by the adjectival clause, the defect does not arise The defect in the present case would be avoided if it would be given in the form of a sentence which can be effected by the substitution of yah' for 'vah' which would give it a formal status of a separate clause The verse then would give a meaning as May the ringing sound of the moving bangles which plays the role of the music of the flute and which accompany the dancing of youth expand your love
Mammata also asserts that samaptapunarätta is neither a defect nor an excellence in some cases where the resumption is not for the purpose of adding a further epithet but is introduced as a distinct statement
Samāptapunaratta is a logical defect If a sentence either in prose or in poetry is completed and a further addition does not give anything new and simply repeats the same idea, then, there is no logic in adding a word, sentence or a clause If it is done, it leads to the fault of samäptapunarätta for the simple reason that it is an extra addition without any purpose
Now to conclude as in ordinary sentence so also in a piece of poetry logical completion is a necessary factor From the point of Nyayaśāstra a sentence is
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