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HISTORY OF INDIAN ÆSTHETICS 63

/The reason1 is obvious. All volitional and so conscious psycho-physical activities are due to predominance of Rajas. Similarly all lack of consciousness is due to Tamas. All knowledge, however, and consequent state of rest of the self, in which Bliss consists, is due to Sattva. Rajas and Tamas being overwhelmed by Sattva and so volitional, psychological and conscious physical activities being out of question and the state of ignorance being impossible, there arises a state of the self as described above. nsmd

HIS BASIC ASSUMPTIONS :-

He maintains that the poetic language has three powers. 1. Abhidha, the power to arouse the conventional image, associated with a word in the mind of the hearer. 2. Bhavakatva, the power, which frees the presented, the æsthetic object, from all relations, in which a similar object in ordinary life stands, and so universalises it.p 3. Bhojakatva, the power which throws the two qua- lities of the percipient of the æsthetic object, namely, Rajas and Tamas, into the background and brings Sattva to the forefront.

The quality of Sattva is thus brought to predomi- nance, according to Bhatta Nayaka, by the last of the said prowers, technically called 'Bhojakatva. The last two powers he attributes to the poetic language in addition to the generally accepted Abhidha, the power of giving rise to the conventional image. The second of the said powers, namely Bhavakatva, also cooperates with the last in bringing about this state, inasmuch as it frees the presented from all limitations and so universalises it. Thus, Rajas does not work, because the presented is free from all limitations and is universalised. The presented is

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