Indian Antiquary Vol 23

SR No.: 032515
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Richard Carnac Temple
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 412
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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OCTOBER, 1894.] THE BHASHA-BHUSHANA OF JAS'WANT SINGH.
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Periphrasis is of two kinds: (a) In the first a statement is made by some ingenious tarn of speech. (6) In the other the object which is desired by tbe agent's heart is accomplished by some pretext. Thus, for example: -
(a) Clever is he, who threw a necklace round thy neck - a necklace without a binding. string. According to the Bhúshana-kaumudi, a friend has detected the heroine returning from an assignation, and the necklace without a binding-string represents periphrastically the arms of the lover. The passage is also capable of interpretation like the passage from the Raghuvassa quoted in the Sahitya-darpana. Thas: -- A skilled (conqueror) is he, who placed on thy neck & necklace without a binding-thread (composed of the tears trickling down thy hosom in drops large like pearls, welling forth at the defeat of thy husband, his foe).
(6) You two are seated here (for a flirtation).' 'No friend, we are on our way to bathe in the lake.' Here the hero and heroine have accomplished their desire for an assignation, onder pretext of having accidentally met on their way to the bathing ghai.
Text.
VyAjastutyalankara. Vyajastuti nindá misaki
jabai badai johil Swarga chadhayé patita lai
ganga ká kahau tohi | 106 1 Translation.
Artful Praise. [Sahitya-darpaņa, 707.)
When under pretence of blame, praise is expressed, - it is to be considered as an instance of Artful Praise, as for example: -
O Ganges, what (good) can I say of thee. Thou hast raised sinners to heaven.' (Here under pretence of blaming the Ganges for defiling heaven with sinners, the poet really praises it for its salvation-giving properties.]
The Sahitya-darpana includes under this figure its converse, - the giving blame under pretence of praise. So also Bharati-bhushana, 154, which further includes the expression of praise, under pretence of praising somebody else. E. g., Praising the All-purifying God, under pretence of praising the pure man in whose heart He abides, i. e., the exact, converse of the succeeding.)
Text.
VyAjanindalańkera. VyAja-ninda nindá misahi
inda aurai hối | Sada kshana kinhar na kyo.
chanda manda hai sói 11 106 11 Translation.
Artful Blame. [Not in Sahitya-darpana.]
It is the figure of Artful Blame (vyájanindd) when, under pretext of blaming one person, another person is also blamed; as for example:
Why did not (the Creator) make the moon ever and always emaciated ? It was an evil action of His (not to have done so).'
[Here a heroine, distraught of the absence of her beloved, blames the moon for not being always as emaciated as herself, under cover of blaming the Creator. Cf. the note to the preceding figure.]
So also Rasika-mhina, 110, and Padmabharana, 126.