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Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study)

by Debabrata Barai | 2014 | 105,667 words

This page relates ‘Alamkara (1): Vakrokti� of the study on the Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara: a poetical encyclopedia from the 9th century dealing with the ancient Indian science of poetics and rhetoric (also know as alankara-shastra). The Kavya-mimamsa is written in eighteen chapters representing an educational framework for the poet (kavi) and instructs him in the science of applied poetics for the sake of making literature and poetry (kavya).

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In the 屹ṃk (of ), Āⲹ says that Vakrokti as emerges a full-fledged concepts and assigned a prominent place in 屹ⲹ (poetry). To whom, Vakrokti transgresses all mundane experiences (lokatikranta-gocaram) and highly desirable for the purpose of adorning poetic speech.[1] Then Āⲹ ٲṇḍ try to establish in his Kāvyādarśa, ṃk as ٲṅkٱ�. He uses the term Vakrokti as a collective designation for all figures except 屹ǰپ (natural description), which he regards as the �ṃkṛt� first and foremost figure of speech.[2] ٲṇḍ first time clearly differentiation between 屹ǰپ and Vakrokti. He realizes all literature can be divided into the two categories of 屹ǰپ (naturastic) and Vakrokti (obliquetic compositions). Like 峾, ٲṇḍ also regards پśǰپ as the basis of all poetic figures.

The view of 峾ṇa and ٲṇḍ on Vakrokti are in general similar, both of them regards it as an in common striking modes of speech different from the popular, matter of fact, way of communication. It also considers being the basis of all figures of speech. However there is a significant difference between their viewpoints, where ٲṇḍ concepts is something crowed from .

Āⲹ 峾ṇa uses the Vakrokti in a restricted sense. He conceives of it as a peculiar mode of metaphorical expression based on similarity. The Vakrokti is thus as an ٳṃk (figure of sense). ܻṭa in the second chapter of his 屹ṃk (of ܻṭa) described Vakrokti as a ṃk (verbal figure) by the saying:

vakroktirnāmaśavdālaṅkāro\'yam� iti ܻṭa�

-屹ⲹmīmāṃsā of Ჹś󲹰: Ch-VII, Pp- 31

Which is consisting on Vakrokti, Yamaka, Anuprāśa, Śṣa and Citra, of which Śṣa is also an ٳṃk.[3] ܻṭa again says the two well known types of Vakrokti: Śṣa Vakrokti (vakrokti based on paronomasia) and -Vakrokti (vakrokti based on intonation) originated. In the Śṣa Vakrokti, the listeners consciously distorts the speakers word and meaning, spoken with a specific purpose with a view to answering him back in a difference way. The other Vakrokti is where difference meaning is conveyed by a simple substitution of another intonation pattern.

Then, Ჹś󲹰 in the seventh chapter of 屹ⲹmīmāṃsā mention about the Vakrokti and extension to this meaning as:

‘abhiprāyavān pāṭhadharma� � sā kathamalaṅkārī syāt ?� iti yāyāvarīya |

-屹ⲹmīmāṃsā of Ჹś󲹰: Ch-VII, Pp- 31

Means:

is the quality of recitation on reading (ٳ󲹻󲹰), how can it be designated as an ṃk.�

Here Ჹś󲹰 disagree with the ancient scholars concepts on Vakrokti. In this way we see that the Ჹś󲹰’s views as the figure of Vakrokti by the name of Auktika. Further he also mentions the extension of meaning in the ninth chapter by the statements quotes of his wife, ԳīܲԻ岹ī as: There is no constant nature of thing, so far as poetry is concerned for the poets� artistic mind and his ingenuous terms of expression conceive of things in all sorts of ways. C.f

‘vidagdhabhaṇitibhaṅginivedya� vastuno rupa� na niyatasvabhāvam� iti avantisundarī |

-屹ⲹmīmāṃsā of Ჹś󲹰: Ch-IX, Pp- 46

In this way we can find out the Ჹś󲹰’s views about the Vakrokti concepts on Sanskrit Poetics.

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

Vakroktijīvita of Kuntaka: I/ 10

vakroktire va vaidagdhabhaṅgībhaṇitirucyate |
vakrokti� prasiddhābhidhānavyatire kinī vicitraivābhidhā

[2]:

Vakroktijīvita of Kuntaka: III

ⲹ峾 پśⲹ� ko'pi ٳ پ岹ٱ |
varṇanīyasya dharmāṇāṃ tadvida āhlādadyāyinām || �

[3]:

󾱲Բī of Abhinavagupta: Pp-364, “lakṣaṇāneva i pradhānam | tat prasaṅge guṇālaṅkārā iti tātparyam

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