Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /207

VibhA lotus passes its life in vain
Because it cannot see the rays of the moon.
And the life of the moon too is not fruitfully bright
Because the sleepless lotus never comes to its sight.
 
In the first example, the particle vināvanā : 'ncommon Causation
 
A lotus passes its life in vain
 
Because it cannot see the ra has been directlys of the moon.
 
And the life of the moon too is not fruitfully bright
Because the sleepless lotus never comes to its sight.
 
In the first example, the particle vinā has been directly used
used
and the objects like beauty, night and elegance of diction without (vinā)

their proper combinations have been represented as disagreeable.
 

 
In the second example, the sense of absence or exclusion of

something has been implied. Here the words indu (used as mascu-

line meaning the moon and nalini (used as fenminine meaning the

lotus) have been personified as the lover and the beloved. So it is a

kind of poetic fancy which tries to establish that the life of the lotus

without the rays of the moon becomes useless and simultaneously

the moon being unable to have a look at the sleepless lotus
becomes most unfortunate.
 

becomes most unfortunate.
 
Definitions
 

 
विनोक्तिः सा विनान्येन यत्रान्यः सन्न नेतरः । का. प्र. १०.१७२

विना किञ्चिदन्यस्य सदसत्त्वाभावो विनोक्तिः । अ. स. ३१

विनोक्तिश्चेद् विना किञ्चित् प्रस्तुतं हीनमुच्यते । च. ५.५६

एकेन विना किञ्चिद्यत्रान्यत् स्यात् सतोऽसतो यद्वा । ए. ८.२२

विना संबन्धि यत् किचिद्यत्रान्यस्य पराभवेत् ।
 

 
अरम्यता रम्यता वा सा विनोक्तिरिति स्मृता ॥ प्र. य. ४०२

विनोक्तिर्यद् विनान्येन न साध्वन्यदसाधु वा । सा. १०.५५

विनोक्तिश्चेद् विना किञ्चित्प्रस्तुतं हीनमुच्यते । कु. २२.५६

तच्चेत् किंचिद् विना रम्यं विनोक्तिः सापि कथ्यते । चि. ६०

विनोक्तिः सा विनैकेनान्यस्य चेत् सदसत्कृतिः । अ. कौ. ८.२७६

यत्रान्येन विनान्योऽसाधुः सन्वा विनोक्तिः सा । अ-कौ. ४२
 

 
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विभावना Vibhāvanā : Uncommon Causation :
 

 
vi bhāvanā (√ bhā anat ā) literally means conception, discussion, inves-

tigation, ascertainment or discrimination. When the effects ( kārya) are

represented as taking place even at the absence of their usual

causes (kāraņa), it is rhetorically known as Vibhāvanā. Logically a
 

 
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