Sahrdayaloka Part 02

SR No.: 006909
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tapasvi Nandi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2005
Total Pages: 642
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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SAHRDAYĀLOKA The seventh variety is one besed on the subordinated suggested sense, depending on intonation, i.e. kāku. The illustration is : “mathnāmi kauravaśatam...” etc. Herein, the suggested sense viz. that, “I will kill”, stands with the negation of the expressed sense : "atra mathnāmy eva ity ādi vyangyam vācya-nişedha-sahabhāvena sthitam. (K. P. V. pp. 152, ibid).
The eighth variety, called 'a-sundara' depends, as is implied by its name, on the indecent suggested content. Thus we come across a fresh principle of morality and the like. The example is : "vānīrakudanguddiņa..." etc. The idea is that some paramour with whom an appointment was fixed, has entered the bower, and through this suggested fact, the expressed fact, viz. that of the house-wife feeling nervous, is rendered more charming. : "atra datta-sanketaḥ kaścil latāgahanam pravistaḥ iti vyangyāt, 'sīdanty angāni' iti vācyam sa-camatkāram."
Actually we wonder why this variety is given the name "a-sundara.” For, a number of other illustrations elsewhere, such as, “kassa vā na hoi roso...", such illicit relations are suggested. So, it is futile to bring in a “moral consideration;" for in love and war everything is fair and this variety could have been named 'sundara' where the expressed is rendered more charming by the un-expressed.
Mammața further goes into the sub-divisions of gunībhūta-vyangya-poetry. He observes that :
"eşām bhedā yathāyogam
veditavyāś ca pūrva-vat. (K. P. 46 cd, pp. 152, ibid) He further observes :
"vyajyante vastumātreña yadā’lamkştayas tadā, dhruvam dhvanyangatā tāsām
kāvya-vsttes tadāśrayād” (Dhv. II. 29) iti, dhvanikārokta-diśā vastumātrena yatrálankāro vyajyate, na tatra gunībhūtavyangyatvam. (K. P. V. pp. 152. ibid)
-“The varieties of these (=eight kinds of subordinated suggestion) should be understood, as far as applicable, in the manner of the former case, (of the suggestive poetry).
'As far as applicable' means-when figures are suggested only by the matter itself, then they are invariably the part of suggestion; for the very procedure of poetry rests upon those, i.e. the suggested poetic figures.