269. 300 THAVHG TO RCHAPTER IV AH8 AMIMAM

300 THAVHG TO RCHAPTER IV AH8 AMIMAM

the Dhvanivadin gives the poetic composition the name of Dhvani simply because it presents Rasa. The definition cof Kavya, therefore, as an activity of a poet is wrong. HIS CONCEPTION OF GAMYAGAMAKABHAVA. There is usually a perceptible succession in the apprehension of premises and conclusion. It is clearly perceptible when they are presented in a sentence. It is also clearly perceptible in those cases where the inferable is either a situation or a figure of speech. But it is not clearly perceptible in those cases where the inferable is a Rasa. The relation in such cases is not that of reason and conclusion but that of the illumina- tor and the illuminable ( Gamyagamakabhāva). The simultaneousness in the experience of both the illumi- nator and the illuminable in these cases is an error. For, logical analysis of the experience reveals the succession in it. As in the case of the theory of Dhvani, the relation of the suggestive and the suggestible is based on this error of thinking the two experiences to be simultaneous, .the theory is erroneous1. Mahima Bhatta has no objection to the use of the word Dhvani for Anumitanumeyartha, provided it is used in the secondary sense with the purpose of indicating that this meaning produces Camatkära (æsthetic experience) in the æsthete. ANANDA VARDHANA'S POINTS OF VIEW. blnod Ananda Vardhana speaks from two points of view (1) logical and (II) æsthetic. While speaking from the former point of view he uses such language as justifies the attribution of the theory of inference to him. And 1. V.V. 53.