Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c81.s1.69

v2.c81.s1.69

It is also noteworthy that the *rīti*-system assigns to some of the *guṇas* functions which other systems assign to *alaṃkāras* or poetic figures. Vāmana’s *artha-guṇa kānti* corresponds to figures like *rasavat* of the *alaṃkāra*-system²³, while Daṇḍin’s *samādhi* in some cases will be equivalent to the *rūpaka* and analogous metaphorical figures. Vāmana’s *artha-guṇa artha-vyakti* is nothing more than the *svabhāvokti* of Daṇḍin, and Daṇḍin’s *kānti* only defines the limit, as Hemacandra puts it, to the figure *atiśayokti* (*śeyam atiśayokter yantraṇā, na punar guṇāntaram*). On the basis of Bhāmaha’s *vakrokti*, the later writers of the Alaṃkāra school, we shall see, postulate *ukti-vaicitrya* as the fundamental principle of all figurative expression, but this is comprehended merely as one of the excellences by Vāmana’s definition of the *artha-guṇa mādhurya*.