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Sāraḥ Climax
exhibited as gradually stepping forward in essence or some objects
are put one after another according to their merit in a compara-
tively higher order, it is Sāra. Most of the rhetoricians accept the fol-
lowing difinition: Sāra implies gradual heightening of excellence of
the things put in a proper order of sequence. But Jagannātha and
Jayaratha think that the reverse process (ie gradual degree of defe-
ciency) may also be taken as instances of Sāra. Therefore, in English
it may be termed as Climax as well as anti-Climax.
The figure Vardhamanaka defined by Sobhākara is no other than
Sāra. The figures known as Ekavali, Kāraṇamālā, Sāra and
Mālādipaka bear the same basic feature that in each of them there is
a chain of things put in an order. Therefore, scholars like Jayaratha
and Jagannatha have raised the question - whether these alamkāras
ought to be recognised separately or not. On this problem both are
unanymous on the point that these four form a class of figures like
some other classes (such as Rūpaka and Pariņāma).
eg 1. madhuram madhu tasmācca sudhā tasyāḥ kaver vacaḥ
मधुरं मधु तस्माच्च सुधा तस्याः कवेर्वचः
Honey is sweet, sweeter than honey is nectar,
But even than that poetry is sweeter.
2. dānam vittādṛtam vācaḥ kirti-dharmau tathāyuṣaḥ.
paropakaraṇam kāyād asārat sāram uddharet.
दानं वित्तादृतं वाचः / कीर्तिधमा तथायुषः ।
परोपकरणं कायाद् / असारात् सारमुद्धरेत् ॥
191
Charity is better than wealth, truth than words of strife
So also fame and virtue better than long life;
Philanthropy better than this frame mundane.
From all worthless things the essence has to be taken.
Definitions
यत्र यथासमुदायाद्यथेकदेशं क्रमेण गुणवदिति ।
निर्धार्यते परावधि निरतिशयं तद् भवेत् सारम् ॥ रु. का. ७.९६
उत्तरोत्तरमुत्कर्षो भवेत सारः परावधिः । का. प्र. १९०.१२३
उत्तरोत्तरमुत्कर्षः सार । अ. स. ५६
समुदायाद् उत्कृष्टोत्कृष्टनिर्धारणं सारम् । वा. ५३
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exhibited as gradually stepping forward in essence or some objects
are put one after another according to their merit in a compara-
tively higher order, it is Sāra. Most of the rhetoricians accept the fol-
lowing difinition: Sāra implies gradual heightening of excellence of
the things put in a proper order of sequence. But Jagannātha and
Jayaratha think that the reverse process (ie gradual degree of defe-
ciency) may also be taken as instances of Sāra. Therefore, in English
it may be termed as Climax as well as anti-Climax.
The figure Vardhamanaka defined by Sobhākara is no other than
Sāra. The figures known as Ekavali, Kāraṇamālā, Sāra and
Mālādipaka bear the same basic feature that in each of them there is
a chain of things put in an order. Therefore, scholars like Jayaratha
and Jagannatha have raised the question - whether these alamkāras
ought to be recognised separately or not. On this problem both are
unanymous on the point that these four form a class of figures like
some other classes (such as Rūpaka and Pariņāma).
eg 1. madhuram madhu tasmācca sudhā tasyāḥ kaver vacaḥ
मधुरं मधु तस्माच्च सुधा तस्याः कवेर्वचः
Honey is sweet, sweeter than honey is nectar,
But even than that poetry is sweeter.
2. dānam vittādṛtam vācaḥ kirti-dharmau tathāyuṣaḥ.
paropakaraṇam kāyād asārat sāram uddharet.
दानं वित्तादृतं वाचः / कीर्तिधमा तथायुषः ।
परोपकरणं कायाद् / असारात् सारमुद्धरेत् ॥
191
Charity is better than wealth, truth than words of strife
So also fame and virtue better than long life;
Philanthropy better than this frame mundane.
From all worthless things the essence has to be taken.
Definitions
यत्र यथासमुदायाद्यथेकदेशं क्रमेण गुणवदिति ।
निर्धार्यते परावधि निरतिशयं तद् भवेत् सारम् ॥ रु. का. ७.९६
उत्तरोत्तरमुत्कर्षो भवेत सारः परावधिः । का. प्र. १९०.१२३
उत्तरोत्तरमुत्कर्षः सार । अ. स. ५६
समुदायाद् उत्कृष्टोत्कृष्टनिर्धारणं सारम् । वा. ५३
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