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the suggestive power is in any case necessary to get the negative meaning. Because the experience of the æsthetic emotion of terror is naturally in the spectator and not in the person so described. For, in the latter case it is simple terror that is aroused. And this æsthetic emotion is due, even according to the opponent, not to the conventional meaning. How can it then be aroused unless the suggestive power be admitted ? Thus the opponent, while fighting against the Dhvani theory has simply been esta- blishing it.

V. DHVANI DISTINGUISHED FROM FIGURES OF SPEECH.

The opponents, belonging to the Alankarika school, maintain that figures of speech are of two types (i) those without any suggestible elements and (ii) those in which the suggestible element is a necessary constituent, The suggestible, therefore, is an element in the figures of speech of the latter type. It has no independent existence, It is, therefore, necessary here to discuss one of the figures of speech which, according to the Alankarika, has the sugges- tible element as a necessary constituent. Let us take, for instance, the Samasokti and analyse the illustration, which Anandavardhana himself has given, to find out how far the position of the opponent is sound.

FIGURE SAMĀSOKTI DEFINED. If a statement contains adjuncts with double meaning, the meaning, that is not applicable to what is directly mentioned, suggests something else similar to it and thus enhances the æsthetic value of the statement as a whole. Such a statement is technically called Samasokti, because of its being of compressed nature.