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- Title: Mahimabhatta's Analysis of Poetic Flaws.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 230 KB
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The revolutionary Dhvanyaloka of the mid-ninth-century Kashmiri literary theorist Anandavardhana challenged many of the doctrines and presuppositions of both earlier Sanskrit literary theory (Alamkarasastra) and general linguistic philosophy. While Anandavardhana's radical views eventually gained more or less universal acceptance among Sanskrit literary theorists, they at first drew a good deal of hostile response from defenders of earlier modes of literary theory as well as non-literary language theory. The most aggressively determined, and also the last, major critic of Anandavardhana's views within the tradition of Alamkarasastra is the mid-eleventh-century Kashmiri Mahimabhatta. Mahimabhatta's only surviving work, his Vyaktiviveka ("An Analysis of Suggestion"), (1) is a concerted attack on one of the central components of Anandavardhana's theory. Anandavardhana argues that the beauty of literary language depends crucially on its capacity to convey certain meaning-elements that are not explicitly stated--unstated vastus (narrative elements), alamkaras (figures of speech), and, most importantly, rasas (aestheticized emotions). One of the primary objectives of Anandavardhana's work is to show that the capacity of poetry to convey these unstated meanings cannot be explained in terms of the two modes of signification generally recognized by theorists of non-literary language (the literal [abhidha] and the figurative [laksana or gunavrtti]), and that it is therefore necessary to postulate a third, specifically poetic, mode of expression, which he calls "suggestion" (dhvani or vyanjana).