Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /174

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A HandVidyādhara says that the present figure may booe included in
vāk oovākya as def Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
Vidyadhara says tht the present figure mayined be included in
vākovākya as defined by some rhetoricians.
 

 
It is needless to say that Praśnottara is different from Hetu (Poetic

Causation), Anumana (Poetic Inference) or Kaāvyalinga (Corroboration)

because the answer to the question is either stated or implied here

by the poet directly or indirectly and not inferred in any way. Here

the question may be one or more than one with the corresponding

answer or answers. It should be remembered that such question

and answer must be poetically refined and artistically attractive.
 
: ?
 

 
eg 1. kam samṃ saṃjaghāna Kṛṣṇa?
 
कं संजघान कृष्णः ?
Whom did Kṛṣṇa slay? Kṛṣṇa slew Kamṃsa.

 
kā siśītala-vāhini ganga?
 
ī gangā ? का शीतलवाहिनी गंगा ?
Where does the Ganga fitim?
 
Where doelow quietly?
Quiet flows the Ganga in the land oflow quietly?
 
Quiet flows the Ganga in the land of Käsi
āsi
 
ke dāra-posaņe ratahṣaṇe ratāḥ ? के दारपोषणे रताः ?
 

Who are actively engaged in maintaining their families?

Those who are engaged in cultivation (maintain their families).

 
kamṃ balavantamṃ na bādhate sśītam ? कं बलवन्तं न बाधते शीतम् ?

Whom the mighty one winter cannot torment?
 
?
Winter cannot torment one who has a blanket.
 

 
2. ko'yamʼyaṃ dvāri ? hariḥ hari., prayāhyupavanamṃ, śākhā-mṛgeṇātra kim?
?
kṛṣṇo'ham dayite.ʼhaṃ dayite, bibhemi sutarāmṃ kṛṣṇaḥ kathamṃ vānaraḥ!
mugdhe 'ham madhusudano,
mugdheʼhaṃ madhusūdano, vraja latāmṃ tāmeva puṣpāsavām
ittham
itthaṃ nirvacaniīkṛto dayitayā hṛrīṇo hariḥ pātu vaḥ.
 

 
कोऽयं द्वारि ? हरिः । प्रयाह्युपवनं, शाखामृगेणात्र किम् ?

कृष्णोऽहं दयिते । बिभेमि सुतरां कृष्णः कथं वानरः ।

मुग्धेऽहं मधुसूदनो । व्रज लतां तामेव पुष्पासवाम्

इत्थं निर्वचनीकृतो दयितया हीह्रीणो हरिः पातु वः ॥
 

 
Who is in the gate? It's me Hari.
 

(If so) go to the garden, what's the need of a monkey here?
?
It's me Kṛṣṇa, my love.
 

That's why I get freightened.
 

How is it? -- a monkey and that too black!
 

My darling, it's me, Madhusuūdana.
 

(If so), go to the creeper fully blossomed
 
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