Sunday, March 9, 2014

Dhvani

The actual meaning of dhvani is suggestion. This is a graceful concept which occupies an important place in poetic theory i.e. in Sanskrit Theaters. Anandvardhana was the first supporter of the dhvani further it was elaborated by Abhinavagupta .

According to this theory the content of a good poem is mainly divided into two parts. One is direct express through the powerful meaning of words and the other is to be the soul of poetry. Sometimes Dhvani is linked with the denotative i.e. denoting and connotative i.e. suggesting meaning of the words.

 According to the traditions there are three types of Dhvani. When the expressive words offer their direct meaning vastu (Idea) it is called Vastudhvani. The sun has set may mean to be a peasant that it is a right time to stop tilling the field whereas for the housewife it is the time to cook the food. When in addition to express the meaning some striking and power meaning is placed in the poetry which is called as Alamkara which means ornamental dhvani which understand the different form to express the figure of speech. And when a poet should have an idea that where to place these powerful words and should carefully choose his words by particular situation and make them convey far more than their bare meaning and so includes the whole series of emotions it creates Rasadhvani.

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