The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa
by Dhrubajit Sarma | 2015 | 94,519 words
This page relates “Alamkara (19): Nidarshana or illustration� as it appears in the case study regarding the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa. The Shrikanthacarita was composed by Mankhaka, sometimes during A.D. 1136-1142. The Mankhakosa or the Anekarthakosa is a kosa text of homonymous words, composed by the same author.
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Part 5s - Alaṃkāra (19): 岹ś or illustration
When a possible or, as is sometimes the case, even an impossible connection of things implies a relation of type and prototype, it is 岹ś[1] or illustration. In the verse, ܳٱ貹ٳپپ貹ٳپñܰ�[2] …�., it has been stated that one who is not familiar with different scriptures, if tries to compose poetry on , then he is, as if, fighting in a battle forsaking his armour, tricks etc. and takes recourse to a wooden sword. Hence, as if, one wins a battle even without fighting and likewise creates a poem without expertise on his part. Therefore, it stands as an illustration of the figure illustration i.e. 岹ś, as there is the relation of type and prototype between the ܱ貹Բ and the upameya.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
sambhavan vastusambandho’sambhavan vā’pi kutracit/
yatra bimbānubimbatva� bodhayetsā nidarśanā// Sāhityadarpaṇa., X. 51
[2]:
ܳٱ貹ٳپپ貹ٳپñܰḥsañcāravācaṃyamo vakreṇaiva kalālavena kurute ya� kāvyamavyākula�/
muktvā varma vihāya karma ca samitkālocita� so’khila� viśva� dārumayena jetumasinā saṃrambhato jṛmbhate// Śrīkaṇṭhacarita., II. 46