Essay name: Kavyalankara-sara-sangraha of Udbhata
Author: Narayana Daso Banhatti
This is the Sanskrit edition Kavyalankara Sara Sangraha, including the Laghuvritti commentary of Induraja, an English introduction, notes and appendices. The “Kavyalamkara Sara Samgraha� by Udbhata is a significant work in the field of Sanskrit poetics, primarily focusing on poetic figures and rhetoric (alamkara). It dates back to the late 8th century.
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屹첹--Բ.
Ruyyaka has :-
भेदप्राधान्य� उपमानादुपमेयस्याधिक्ये विपर्यये वा व्यतिरेक� � अलकारसर्वस्व,
[bhedaprādhānye upamānādupameyasyādhikye viparyaye vā vyatireka� | alakārasarvasva,
] P. 9. As the example of the second variety he gives the
verse of Rudrata -- क्षीणः क्षीणोपि शशी [kṣīṇa� kṣīṇopi śśī ] etc., and explains चन्द्रापेक्षया
� यौवनस्� न्यूनगुणत्वम� � शशिवैलक्षण्येन तस्यापुनरागमात� �
[Իṣa
ca yauvanasya nyūnaguṇatvam | śaśivailakṣaṇyena tasyāpunarāgamāt |
] The verse ' क्षीणः क्षीणोपि शशी [kṣīṇa� kṣīṇopi śśī] ' must be a composition of
Rudrata as it is found in his and is in the aryā
metre. All the verses in are his own. Therefore
if we accept the view of Mammaṭa we must say that
Rudrata himself did not grasp the real meaning of his
verse; for he has cited it to illustrate the superiority of
उपमा� [ܱ貹Բ ] over उपमे�. [upameya. ] Mammata has very clearly shown that
the आधिक्य [ⲹ ] in this verse is of उपमे� [upameya ] over उपमा� [ܱ貹Բ ] i e of यौवन
[yauvana
] over शशी [śśī ] and not vice versa. He says - 'क्षीणः क्षीणोऽप� शशी...... [kṣīṇa� kṣīṇo'pi śśī......] '
-- इत्यादावुपमानस्योपमेयादाधिक्यमित� केनचिदुक्त� तदयुक्तम� � अत्र यौवनगत�-
स्थैर्याधिवय� हि विवक्षितम् � काव्यप्रकाशः, [ityādāvܱ貹Բsyopameyādⲹmiti kenacidukta� tadayuktam | atra yauvanagatā-
sthairyādhivaya� hi vivakṣitam | kāvyaprakāśa�, ] X, p. 645.
It is peculiar to note that Bhamaha does not include
आधिक्य [ⲹ ] of उपमा� [ܱ貹Բ ] over उपमे�. [upameya. ] He says-
उपमानवतोर्थस्य यद्विशेषनिदर्शनम� �
व्यतिरेक� तमिच्छन्ति विशेषापादनाद्यथा �
व्यतिरेक.
- भामहालंकार, �.७५.
[ܱ貹Բvatorthasya yadviśeṣanidarśanam |
vyatireka� tamicchanti viśeṣāpādanādyathā ||
vyatireka.
- bhāmahālaṃkāra, 2.75.
] But Udbhata who always follows Bhamaha seems to have
intentionally abandoned him here. Bhamaha has attempt-
ed no divisions of af. But we have seen that Udbhata
does so though his divisions are not so scientific and exact
as those of Mammata. Mammata has 24 divisions in all.
See the passage partially quoted above from
pp. 646-47.
X
P.40, L. 24-विभावन� � [vibhāvanā | ] This figure and विशेषोक्ति [śṣoپ ] are
complements of each other and they are consecutively
treated by modern Rhetoricians like रुय्यक, मम्म�, अप्पयदीक्षि�,
[ruyyaka, mammaṭa, appayadīkṣita,
] and others. But the old order of generally
accepted by Bhamaha, Udbhata, Dandin and others seems
to have followed no scientific principle.
DOG
P. 40, LL. 25, 26 - क्रियाया� प्रतिषेध� या [kriyāyā� pratiṣedhe yā ] 1 "The dis
playing of the result [of any action] while the action (i. e.
the cause) itself is denied, is to be regarded as fa
satisfaction (as to how the result took place) is easily
obtained.
when
