Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c82.s1.5

v2.c82.s1.5

² Commenting of Bhāmaha’s central verse on *vakrokti* (ii 85), *saiṣā sarvaiva vakroktir anayārtho vibhāvyate*, Abhinavagupta attempts to read into it his own idea of the importance of *rasa* and interprets *vibhāvyate* technically as *pramadōdyānair vibhāvatāṃ nīyate, viśeṣeṇa ca bhāvyate, rasamayīkriyata iti*. He apparently makes Bhāmaha mean that by *vakrokti*, the sense of poetry is rendered into a suitable factor of *rasa*, so that by using the word *vibhāvyate* with the technical meaning given to it by Abhinava, Bhāmaha would imply that the *rasa* as well as *alaṃkāra* originates in *vakrokti*.