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bridge up a big semantic gap. The passage runs as follows: प्रतीच्छत्याशोकी किसलयपरावृत्तिमधरः कपोलः पाण्डुत्वादवतरति ताडीपरिणति । परिम्लानप्रायामनुवदति दृष्टि: कमलिनी मितीयं माधुर्यं स्पृशति च तनुत्वं च भजते ॥
Actions like 'Praticchati' assigned to the lips, 'Avatarati' assigned to the cheeks and 'Anuvadati assigned to the eyes are the kind of synthesis required for the 'Samadhi Guna' of Dandin which by later critics has been acknowledge as imaginative insight into the Arthas. Simultaneously the actions of the passage taken in order suggest another parallel image thus we have desire1 then condescension' and then communion3 and then physical touch and finally carnal enjoyment."
There is one more passage in Kavya M. cited as an illustration of ukti. This passage also has Samadhi since the actions of breaking, licking and drinking are respectively transferred to breath, arms and eyes."
In the above quoted passage from KavyaM. the semantic synthesis does not obtain quite smoothly for it is not without some degree of violence that the action of 'Avatarati' has been transferred to the cheeks. The parallel image suggested by various actions is not very explicit. Similarly, in the other passage referred to, 'capable of being broken with the breath' does not obtain a smooth synthesis for 'breath' and 'breaking' do not naturally cohere. Their dove-tailing is artificial."
This brings us to another problem: the magnitude of the semantic gap and the method of bridging it.
1. प्रतीच्छति
3. अनुवदति 5. भजते
2. अवतरति 4. स्पृशति
6. उदरमिदमनिन्द्यं मानिनीश्वासलाव्यं स्तनतटपरिणाहो दोर्लतालेह्य सीमा । स्फुरति च वदनेन्दुर्दृ प्रणाली निपेय rafag yafu, neur: Kaaì atanza 11
Kavyam V.
7. The two passages are truly, illustrative of the poet's deliberate contrivance for 'ukti'. Here Rajasekhara is furnishing examples to show the poet's inordinate predilection for 'ukti' which may very well lead him to making deliberate and calculated attempts to contrive it. Under such conditions the synthesis in question may not be smooth and natural--as is the case here-for it is more calculated than intuitive.
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