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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
words or phrases or sentences or meaning. Such devices have been
significantly compared either to external decorations or internal
qualities of the body of poetry. Alamkāra is beauty (saundarya), or
grace (sobhā) or charm (caruta) or taste of aesthetic delight
(camatkāra).
While making an anatomical survey of poetry Sanskrit rhetori-
cians have analysed it thus : Word and meaning make the body of
poetry, figures of speech are its ornaments and decorations, poetic
embellishments (gunas) are virtues, organic style (riti) is its symme-
try, harmony and proportion, while rasa or the state of blessed
delightfulness through aesthetic contemplation is its soul.
In the same way the modern western critics also have almost
repeated the same ideas: Language is but the apparel of poetry.
Ornaments are compared to flowers, jewels or embroidery or even the crim-
son taint... laid upon a lady's lips. Style is an organic whole, ... not the
clothes a man weares, but flesh and bone of his body, ... health to body and
soul.
The term figure of speech means any deviation, either in thought
or expression, from the ordinary and simple method of speaking.
After taking into consideration the various aspects of the use of
figurative language Sanskrit rhetoricians have defined alamkāra as
follows:
In literary art, embellishments of sound and sense are the
decorative ornaments of beautification. Bharata
Alamkāras are the decoratiive designs of poetry. - Dandin
Figures of speech are the artistic representation of word and
meaning. Any art of poet's expression turns to be its
beautification. - Bhāmaha
-
Alamkāra is beauty; any type of ornamentation of sound and
sense is alamkāra. - Vāmana
Literary qualities (or gunas) are the permanent accessories of
poetry while the rhetorical figures are the instruments for the
artistic representation of word and meaning. - Mammaṭa
Any figure of speech is a variety of artful diction or striking
mode of expression (ie vakrokti). - Kuntaka
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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
words or phrases or sentences or meaning. Such devices have been
significantly compared either to external decorations or internal
qualities of the body of poetry. Alamkāra is beauty (saundarya), or
grace (sobhā) or charm (caruta) or taste of aesthetic delight
(camatkāra).
While making an anatomical survey of poetry Sanskrit rhetori-
cians have analysed it thus : Word and meaning make the body of
poetry, figures of speech are its ornaments and decorations, poetic
embellishments (gunas) are virtues, organic style (riti) is its symme-
try, harmony and proportion, while rasa or the state of blessed
delightfulness through aesthetic contemplation is its soul.
In the same way the modern western critics also have almost
repeated the same ideas: Language is but the apparel of poetry.
Ornaments are compared to flowers, jewels or embroidery or even the crim-
son taint... laid upon a lady's lips. Style is an organic whole, ... not the
clothes a man weares, but flesh and bone of his body, ... health to body and
soul.
The term figure of speech means any deviation, either in thought
or expression, from the ordinary and simple method of speaking.
After taking into consideration the various aspects of the use of
figurative language Sanskrit rhetoricians have defined alamkāra as
follows:
In literary art, embellishments of sound and sense are the
decorative ornaments of beautification. Bharata
Alamkāras are the decoratiive designs of poetry. - Dandin
Figures of speech are the artistic representation of word and
meaning. Any art of poet's expression turns to be its
beautification. - Bhāmaha
-
Alamkāra is beauty; any type of ornamentation of sound and
sense is alamkāra. - Vāmana
Literary qualities (or gunas) are the permanent accessories of
poetry while the rhetorical figures are the instruments for the
artistic representation of word and meaning. - Mammaṭa
Any figure of speech is a variety of artful diction or striking
mode of expression (ie vakrokti). - Kuntaka
Digitized by Google
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN