Shringaraprakasha 10.p1.18

10.p1.18

The distinction between poetic suggestion and purport in poetic speech. 543–546. The two-fold manifestation of purport in speech. The method of correlating the purport of the treatise with the third opening stanza of this work, beginning with "ātmasthitam". A brief presentation of the Sāṅkhya doctrine. The mention of erotic aesthetic experience, the causes of its manifestation, its effects, and so forth, in the intermediate verse beginning with "sattvātmanā". 547–549. Justification of the possible coincidence in certain places of poetic suggestion and purport in poetic speech in the benedictory stanza beginning with "acchinnamekhalam". The relevance of stating this meaning in the second stanza as well, beginning with "yatpādapaṅkaje". Commentary on the first benedictory stanza. 550–553. The two-fold nature of erotic aesthetic experience through love in union and love in separation. Its four states consisting of existence, birth, continuance, and culmination. The correlation of these four states with the cited verses. 554–555. Another interpretation of the stated verse. Application of the interpretation according to the view of the proponents of an indivisible sentence-meaning that words designate meaning collectively. 556. Resolution, by expounding the spiritual meaning, of the doubt that the phrase "may the body of the bodiless Maheśvara protect" is incongruous. 557. Exposition of the meaning of the second verse by adopting the view of an indivisible sentence-meaning. 558–559. Inquiry into the meaning of "iva" in "iveva pratikṛtau". Inquiry into the degree of excellence and non-excellence of substance and quality. 560–562. The two-fold nature of qualities. Exposition of the meaning of the qualities and of the qualifiers occupying their place, with examples. Justification of the genitive compound only when words like "gandha" denote substances. 563. Justification of the locative case in "dviradamadajalaughe". 564–565. The meaning of the word "pravibhāga" (proper analysis). The division of word-meanings based on positive and negative concomitance, with examples; and the doubt regarding speech-sounds being distinct from linguistic sound. 566–567. Possessing meaning being the occasion for the designation "nominal stem". Its two-fold nature through the distinction between ordinary and technical.