Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /205

Vidhyābhāsaḥ: Prescription
 
Definitions
 

 
ऊहो वितर्क: सन्देहनिर्णयान्तराधिष्ठितः । स. ३.३६

सन्देहनिर्णयान्तरालवर्त्यूहो वितर्कः । श्रृ. १०

संभावनं यदीत्थं स्यादित्यूहोऽन्यप्रसिद्धये । च. ५.४६

संभावना यदीत्थं स्यादूहोऽन्यस्य सिद्धये । कु. १२६
 
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<headword>विध्याभास</headword>
 
विध्याभासः Vidhyābhāsaḥ: Prescription :
 
vasaḥ : Prescription :
 
i √dhā ki = vi √dhdhi injunction, ā ki = vidhi injunction, à √bhās ac = ābhāsa reflection, resem-

blance, likeness, semblance, false appearance. As a figure of speech

Vidhyābhāsa denotes prescription of some undesired or unwar-

ranted action. Here we find that, in order to negate some unde-

sired result some other thing is prescribed in the form of

injunction, but such injunction being undesirable turns to prohibi-

tion (nişṣedha). According to Ruyyaka it is a variety of AĀkṣepa

(Paralipsis)
 

 
eg 1. gaccha gacchasi cet käānta / sśivās te santu panthānaḥ
 
,
mamāpi janma tatraiva / bhūyād / yatra gato bhavaān.
 

गच्छ गच्छसि चेत् कान्त / शिवास्ते सन्तु पन्थानः ।

ममापि जन्म तत्रैव / भूयाद् यत्र गतो भवान्
 
Digitized b
Please leave, if y
 
Please leou are departing,
Auspicious be thy wanderings;
May I be there again born--
Where you would have gone.
 
This verse is an appeal of the beloved lady when her husband is
ready to depart to a distant place. So the couple would remain sep-
arated for a long time and therefore, if the ladyou are departing,
Auspicious be thy wanderings;
May I be there again born-
Where you would have gone.
 
This verse is an appeal of the beloved lady when her husband is
ready to depart to a distant place. So the couple would remain sep-
arated for a long time and therefore, the lady expresses her good

wishes so that her husband might have a safe journey. But in the

second sentence she expresses her desire to be born again in the

land where her husband would stay for the period of their separa-

tion. But through this desire it is implied that the pangs of separa-

tion may cause an end to her life. Therefore it is suggested that

such injunction turns into a prohibition which implies that the

husband must not go leaving the wife alone.
 
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