Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.49

v2.c79.49

³¹ Hemacandra and Māṇikyacandra explain : *vibhakta-vācya-vācakāyogād anuktayor api śabdārthayoḥ pratipattiḥ prasāda iti bharataḥ*. Jacobi proposes (*ZDMG* lxiv, p. 138, contd. fn.) to read *mukhya* instead of *mukha* in the text, and thinks that Bharata’s *prasāda* corresponds to Daṇḍin’s *samādhi*. But Abhinava reads *sukha* and explains : *sukhayati, na prayatnam apekṣate yaḥ śabdārthaḥ*. Perhaps by this *guṇa*, Bharata means to imply some kind of sly hint (*anukta artha*), transparent from the words used (such as we find, e. g., in the figure *mudrā* in *Candrāloka*, ed. Jivānanda, v 139, and *Kuvalayānanda*, ed. N. S. P., 1917, pp. 146-7), which may