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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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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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Kavyalankara-sara-sangraha.
P. 71, LL. 5-8 - उपकार्योप्युपकार� परस्परोपकारेणेति � [upakāryopyupakāraka parasparopakāreṇeti | ] The
alankara which helps another to develop clearly does
some. And the alankara which is thus helped in-
directly does by being the receptacle of the help of
the other. Thus both are helping each other.
उपका�.
[ܱ貹.
]
P. 71, LL. 10-11:... Here there are
three outstanding figures. हरेणेव त्वय� [hareṇeva tvayā ] is the उपमा. अनङ्गीकृ�
[upamā. Բṅgīṛt
]
means (1) not accpted, despised (1); and (2) deprived
of body (अशरीरत्वमापादितः). [śīٱ徱ٲ�). ] Hence it contains श्ले� धाष्टर्यादिव
� मुञ्चत� [śṣa dhāṣṭaryādiva
na muñcati
]
is (हेतु ) उत्प्रेक्ष�, [hetu ) ܳٱṣ�, ] the cause ( धाष्टर्थात� ) [dhāṣṭarthāt ) ] of the action of
releasing being a fanciful one. Here the is based on the
first meaning of . It is only through boldness that
a despised person does not leave the despiser. Thus here
the श्ले� [śṣa ] in अनङ्गीकृ� [Բṅgīṛt ] helps the उत्प्रेक्ष� [ܳٱṣ� ] and उत्प्रेक्ष� [ܳٱṣ� ] also lends addi-
tional charm to the श्ले�. [śṣa. ] The उपमा, हरेणेव त्वय�, [upamā, hareṇeva tvayā, ] is also based on
the श्ले� [śṣa ] in अनङ्गीकृ� [Բṅgīṛt] ; for अनङ्गीकृ� [Բṅgīṛt ] becomes the श्लिष्� साधारणधर्म.
[śliṣṭa sādhāraṇadharma.
]
Parvati has abandoned (3) cupid; and has
हर
[hara
]
deprived cupid of his body (). But according to
Udbhata is predominant wherever it occurs; other
alankāras are to be thrown to the back ground. Thus
according to him is the principal figure here and
and are its accessories.
P. 71, LL. 17 - 23 - एवमय� ... चत्वार� संकरभेदा� | [evamaya� ... catvāra� saṃkarabhedā� | ] ԻܰᲹ'
recapitulation of all the divisions of described before.
It is to be noted that the names given to the four
varieties of are of ԻܰᲹ' invention. The Kärikäs
do not contain any names of varieties.
The ideas of Dandin and Bhamaha about are not
at all so elaborate and systematic as those of Udbhata,
Dandin uses the words and rather promiscuously.
Bhamaha has only the name
Exactly what kind
of
he intends to put forth is not quite clear, either
from his definition or from his examples. He has -
घर� विभूषा संसृष्टिर्बहले कारयोगतः �
रचित� रत्नमालव सा चैवमुदित� यथ� �
- भामहालंकार, �, ४८,
[gharā vibhūṣ� saṃsṛṣṭirbahale kārayogata� |
racitā ratnamālava sā caivamuditā yathā ||
- bhāmahālaṃkāra, 3, 48,
]

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