Agni Purana — Chapter 344

AgP 344.1

:ए इत्य् आग्नेये महापुराणे अलङ्कारे अर्थालङ्कारनिरूपणं नाम त्रिचत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः छप्तेर् {३४४} :श् अथ चतुश् चत्वारिंशदधिकत्रिशततमो ऽध्यायः शब्दार्थालङ्काराः अग्निर् उवाच शब्दार्थयोरलङ्कारो द्वावलङ्कुरुते समं एकत्र निहितो हारः स्तनं ग्रीवामिव स्त्रियाः

:e ity āgneye mahāpurāṇe alaṅkāre arthālaṅkāranirūpaṇaṃ nāma tricatvāriṃśadadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ chapter {344} :ś atha catuś catvāriṃśadadhikatriśatatamo 'dhyāyaḥ śabdārthālaṅkārāḥ agnir uvāca śabdārthayoralaṅkāro dvāvalaṅkurute samaṃ ekatra nihito hāraḥ stanaṃ grīvāmiva striyāḥ

Thus, in the Agni Mahāpurāṇa, in (the section on) figures, the three hundred forty-third chapter, called the exposition of figures of sense. [Chapter 344] Now the three hundred forty-fourth chapter: figures of both word and sense. Agni said: A figure of word-and-sense adorns both alike, as a necklace placed in one spot (adorns) both the breast and the neck of a woman.

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AgP 344.2

प्रशस्तिः कान्तिरौचित्यं संक्षेपो यावदर्थता अभिव्यक्तिरिति व्यक्तं षड्भेदास्तस्य जाग्रति

praśastiḥ kāntiraucityaṃ saṃkṣepo yāvadarthatā abhivyaktiriti vyaktaṃ ṣaḍbhedāstasya jāgrati

Commendation, charm, propriety, conciseness, being just to the point, and manifestation — thus its six varieties are clearly current.

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AgP 344.3

प्रशस्तिः परवन्मर्मद्रवीकरणकर्मणः वाचो युक्तिर्द्विधा सा च प्रेमोक्तिस्तुतिभेदतः

praśastiḥ paravanmarmadravīkaraṇakarmaṇaḥ vāco yuktirdvidhā sā ca premoktistutibhedataḥ

Commendation is a disposition of speech whose function is to melt the vital point (of the hearer) as though it were (his own) beloved; and it is twofold, by the division into utterance of affection and eulogy.

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AgP 344.4

:प् २२७ प्रेमोक्तिस्तुतिपर्यायौ प्रियोक्तिगुणकीर्तने कान्तिः सर्वमनोरुच्यवाच्यवात्तकसङ्गतिः

:p 227 premoktistutiparyāyau priyoktiguṇakīrtane kāntiḥ sarvamanorucyavācyavāttakasaṅgatiḥ

[p. 227] 'Utterance of affection' and 'eulogy' are the terms (used) for speaking what is dear and for proclaiming (someone's) merits. Charm is the fitting together of what is expressed so as to be agreeable to every mind.

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AgP 344.5

यथा वस्तु तथा रीतिर्यथा वृत्तिस् तथा रसः ऊर्जस्विमृदुसन्दर्भादौचित्यमुपजायते

yathā vastu tathā rītiryathā vṛttis tathā rasaḥ ūrjasvimṛdusandarbhādaucityamupajāyate

As the subject-matter is, so is the style; as the mode is, so is the flavour: from a composition (fittingly) forceful or soft, propriety arises.

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AgP 344.6

संक्षेपो वाचकैर् अल्पैर् वहोरर्थस्य संग्रहः अन्यूनाधिकता शब्दवस्तुनोर्यावदर्थता

saṃkṣepo vācakair alpair vahorarthasya saṃgrahaḥ anyūnādhikatā śabdavastunoryāvadarthatā

Conciseness is the comprehending of much sense by few expressive words. Being just to the point is the absence of deficiency or excess between the words and the thing.

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AgP 344.7

प्रकटत्वमभिव्यक्तिः श्रुतिराक्षेप इत्य् अपि तस्या भेदौ श्रुतिस्तत्र शब्दं स्वार्थसमर्पणम्

prakaṭatvamabhivyaktiḥ śrutirākṣepa ity api tasyā bhedau śrutistatra śabdaṃ svārthasamarpaṇam

Manifestation is being made evident; it is also (called) 'audition' (śruti) and 'implication' (ākṣepa). Its two varieties (are these): therein 'audition' is the word's delivering of its own meaning.

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AgP 344.8

भवेन्नैमित्तिकी पारिभाषिकी द्विविधैव सा सङ्केतः परिभाषेति ततः स्यात् पारिभाषिकी

bhavennaimittikī pāribhāṣikī dvividhaiva sā saṅketaḥ paribhāṣeti tataḥ syāt pāribhāṣikī

It would be twofold only: derived from a ground (naimittikī) and conventional (pāribhāṣikī); the conventional one arises from a designation, that is, a convention.

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AgP 344.9

मुख्यौपचारिकी चेति सा च सा च द्विधा द्विधा स्वाभिधेयस्खलद्वृत्तिरमुख्यार्थस्य वाचकः

mukhyaupacārikī ceti sā ca sā ca dvidhā dvidhā svābhidheyaskhaladvṛttiramukhyārthasya vācakaḥ

(It is) primary and figurative; and each of these two is in turn twofold. (A word) whose operation slips away from its own proper denotation is the expresser of a non-primary sense,

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AgP 344.10

यया शब्दो निमित्तेन केनचित्सौपचारिकी सा च लाक्षणिकी गौणी लक्षणागुणयोगतः

yayā śabdo nimittena kenacitsaupacārikī sā ca lākṣaṇikī gauṇī lakṣaṇāguṇayogataḥ

by which (slipping) a word, on account of some ground, is figurative; and that (figurative usage) is (twofold), lākṣaṇikī and gauṇī, according as it depends on lakṣaṇā (indication) or on a quality (guṇa).

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AgP 344.11

अभिधेयाविनाभूता प्रतीतिर् लक्षणोच्यते अभिधेयेन सम्बन्धात्सामीप्यात्समवायतः

abhidheyāvinābhūtā pratītir lakṣaṇocyate abhidheyena sambandhātsāmīpyātsamavāyataḥ

A cognition that is inseparable from the denoted sense is called lakṣaṇā: through connection with the denoted sense, through proximity, through inherence,

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AgP 344.12

वैपरीत्यात्क्रियायोगाल्लक्षणा पञ्चधा मता गौणीगुणानामानन्त्यादनन्ता तद्विवक्षया

vaiparītyātkriyāyogāllakṣaṇā pañcadhā matā gauṇīguṇānāmānantyādanantā tadvivakṣayā

through contrariety, and through association with an action — thus lakṣaṇā is held to be fivefold; but the gauṇī is endless, since qualities are endless, according to the intention to convey them.

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AgP 344.13

अन्यधर्मस्ततो ऽन्यत्र लोकसीमानुरोधिना सम्यगाधीयते यत्र स समाधिरिह स्मृतः

anyadharmastato 'nyatra lokasīmānurodhinā samyagādhīyate yatra sa samādhiriha smṛtaḥ

Where the property of one thing is thereupon properly placed upon another, in conformity with the bounds of common usage, that is here taught as samādhi.

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AgP 344.14

श्रूतेरलभ्यमानो ऽर्थो यस्माद्भाति सचेतनः स आक्षेपो धनिः स्याच्च ध्वनिना व्यज्यते यतः

śrūteralabhyamāno 'rtho yasmādbhāti sacetanaḥ sa ākṣepo dhaniḥ syācca dhvaninā vyajyate yataḥ

Since a sense not obtained from what is (literally) heard shines forth to one who is attentive, that is ākṣepa; and it would be 'dhvani' (suggestion), because it is made manifest by suggestion.

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AgP 344.15

शब्देनार्थेन यत्रार्थः कृत्वा स्वयमुपार्जनम् :प् २२८ प्रतिषेध इवेष्टस्य यो विशेषो ऽभिधित्सया

śabdenārthena yatrārthaḥ kṛtvā svayamupārjanam :p 228 pratiṣedha iveṣṭasya yo viśeṣo 'bhidhitsayā

Where a sense, by a word or by (another) sense, makes its own acquisition (of meaning), (and where there is) as it were a denial of what is (really) intended — that distinction (produced) by the intention to speak,

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AgP 344.16

तमाक्षेपं व्रुवन्त्यत्र स्तुतं स्तोत्रमिदं पुनः अधिकारादपेतस्य वस्तुनो ऽन्यस्य या स्तुतिः

tamākṣepaṃ vruvantyatra stutaṃ stotramidaṃ punaḥ adhikārādapetasya vastuno 'nyasya yā stutiḥ

that they call ākṣepa here. Again, this praise-utterance (is defined): the praise of some other thing that has fallen outside the topic under discussion —

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AgP 344.17

यत्रोक्तं गम्यते नार्थस्तत्समानविशेषणं सा समासोकितिरुदिता सङ्क्षेपार्थतया बुधैः

yatroktaṃ gamyate nārthastatsamānaviśeṣaṇaṃ sā samāsokitiruditā saṅkṣepārthatayā budhaiḥ

where what is stated is not (itself) the sense understood, (that sense) having qualifiers in common with it — that is declared by the learned to be samāsokti, because its sense is condensed.

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AgP 344.18

अपह्नुतिरपह्नुत्य किञ्चिदन्यार्थसूचनम् पर्यायोक्तं यदन्येन प्रकारेनाभिधीयते एषामेकंतमस्येव समाख्या ध्वनिरित्यतः

apahnutirapahnutya kiñcidanyārthasūcanam paryāyoktaṃ yadanyena prakārenābhidhīyate eṣāmekaṃtamasyeva samākhyā dhvanirityataḥ

Apahnuti is the indicating of some other sense after denying something. Paryāyokta is what is expressed by another mode. Hence the designation 'dhvani' belongs to each single one of these, as it were.

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