dhvani school

Prepared by: Virji Bathvar

Topic: Dhvani school

Roll no:1

paper no: 07 Literary criticism

submitted :Department of English m.k.b.uemail id: bathvarvirji@gmail.com

Definition of Dhvani

A , category of medieval Indian

poetics, according to which the

artistic enjoyment from literary

works is achieved not by the images

that are created by the direct

meaning of the words but by the

associations and ideas that are

evoked by these images like.

What is Dhvani?

Dhvani means ‘Nad’ or voice. If any bird is making voice that is dhvani. Language is the medium through which we can communicate. But Dhvani is the medium of language. Language exist because of Dhvani. This is general meaning now let’s understand in deep.

“Suggestion is the soul of poetry” Ananadvardhana

disscused the concept of Dhvani in details into the “Dhavayaloka” . There is no only consumption of meaning but the suggestion of the word. Because each and every time, word doesn’t convey the actual meaning so there the description to understand Dhavani.

Three kinds of word power

Abhidha

Lakshana

Vyanjana

Abhidha It means we get direct

meaning from the sentence that we call Abhidha. For example as under,

- Cow is eating grass.- Raju is reading a book.

From these both sentences we can get direct meaning and that is Abhidha.

Lakshana

Lakshana means we can’t get direct meaning. In Guajarati we can say ‘Vachyarth’, We can’t understand direct meaning from sentence as under,- Mountain and Squirrel had a quarrel.- Ame road par rahie chie. (Guajarati)In these both the sentences we can’t take direct meaning.

Vyanjana

Vyanjana means we can get direct meaning but we can’t take it. We have to take another meaning. As under,‘Mitha madhu ne mitha mehula re lol, ethi mithite mori mat re…’In this line we can see that we take direct meaning but it is incomplete. Mithite mori mat it not mean that her test is better than ‘madh’ but her love is more than those madhu and mehula. And this is Vyanjana.

Kinds of Dhvani

Vastu Dhvani

Alamkar

Dhvani

Rasa Dhvani

Conclusion So after all we can say that

wonderful concept of Dhvani discussed by Ananadvardhana. And through this process we can also understand minutely about language that how we are speaking sentences.

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