Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c89.34

v2.c89.34

alaṃkāra, poetic figure, as a technical term unknown in early lit. 2; its limited sense and number in Bh 1, 4, 6-9, 20; not defined by Bhā 34, but its prominence in his system 41, 59, 66; conclusions re development of the discipline drawn from the treatment of Bh and Bhā 34f; Bhaṭṭi's treatment of 40; the discipline itself takes its name from 42, 43; in Ud 69f; in Rdt 76, 77f, 144-5, 80, 81, 83-4, 87; in D 85, 98, 106 f; its wider sense in D 104f, 85; not distinguished from guṇa in Bhā, D and Ud 74, 85, 104f; in Vm 123-4, 125f; sharply distinguished from guṇa by Vm 106, 123-4; its existence justified in poetry by Vm 125; its place in dhvani-system 86, 201, 207, 214-17, 220, 239; Knt's theory of 236f; as an aspect of and coextensive with vakrokti (q. v.), 65, 61*; significance of, justified by its vaicitrya (q. v.) due to kavipratibhā (q. v.) 94, 236f, 240f, 273, 288, 290f, 292, 291f, 323-4; included in citra-kāvya 201, 240; its relation to rasa 215-6, 276; its importance recognised in later systems 86f, 215f, 272-3; process of its multiplication 80, 87, 93, illustrated by an example 87f; difference of opinion on the nature and scope of individual figs 88f, the subject not