Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric /96

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A Handbook of Classical Sanskrit Rhetoric
 
eg 1. ko veda gopa-sisśiśukaḥ śailam utpāṭayisṣyati.

को वेद गोपशिशुक: शैलमुत्पाटयिष्यति ।
 

 
Who was aware that this cowherd lass

Would uproot the mountain base!
 

 
Definitions
 

 
असंभवोऽर्थनिष्पत्तेरसंभाव्यत्ववर्णनम् । च. ५.७४; कु. ३६.८४
 
3: A
 
<headword>आक्षेप</headword>
 
आक्षेपः Ākṣepaḥ: Paralipsis :
 
à
 
ā √kṣip means to throw, cast, draw, point out, reject, infer, pass etc. The

word ākṣepa connotes throwing off, withdrawing, diverting, putting into

etc. This figure occurs when some idea intended to be expressed
sincerely is apparently denied or supre
sincerely is apparently denied or suppressed with the intention of

conveying another specially significant idea. In Greak rhetoric, the
ek rhetoric, the
corresponding figure is Paralipsis meaning a passing over (Latin

paraeteritio or occultatio), a literary trick by which a speaker emphasizes an

idea by pretending to say nothing of it even while giving full expression.

In AĀkṣepa the denial is not real, but intentional and that is due to

the purpose of bringing extra-ordinary charm to the statement of

the speaker. It happens under the following conditions:
 

 
(i) there is some intended statement,
 

(ii) verbal denial or supression of that statement,

(iii) in the actual context, the denial is apparent,

(iv) some significant idea is specially conveyed.
 
Digitized
 
The denial by
 
The denial eing apparent turns the prohibeing apparent turns the prohibition ultimately
ition ultimately
meaningless and hence the special meaning comes out. Vāmana

says that the denial of the upamāna (ie the standard of compari-

son) is Aksepa and such denial is made either through phonetic
Ākṣepa and such denial is made either through phonetic
tone (kāku) or through suggestive sense (vyañjanā). In the

Dhvanyaloka, Aāloka, Ānandavardhana refers to some figures of sense (like

Samaāsokti (Speech of Brevity), Viseşśeṣokti (Peculiar Allegation), Paryayokta
āyokta
(Periphrasis), Apahnuti (Concealment) Diīpaka (Illumination) and

Ākṣepa (Paralipsis) where, according to him, there is always a sug-
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