The backdrop of the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa
by Dhrubajit Sarma | 2015 | 94,519 words
This page relates “Alamkara (23): Asangati or disconnection” as it appears in the case study regarding the Srikanthacarita and the Mankhakosa. The Shrikanthacarita was composed by Mankhaka, sometimes during A.D. 1136-1142. The Mankhakosa or the Anekarthakosa is a kosa text of homonymous words, composed by the same author.
Part 5w - Alaṃkāra (23): Asaṅgati or disconnection
When a cause and its effect are represented as having different locations, there is Asaṅgati.[1] In other words, two things, related as cause and effect and therefore naturally expected to be in the same place, are represented as occupying different places on account of some speciality (of the cause), there is Asaṅgati. In the verse, navakiṃśukakarṇapūramanyā[2] ……, there is the description of a a lady, her ears being decorated by her husband with the Kiṃśuka flower. Therefore, her face becomes red by the hue of that flower. It becomes red, out of anger, at the sight of the face of her co-wife. Thus, the verse under discussion stands as an example of Asaṅgati.[3] Other examples of this figure are–tasyānukarṣatvaparigraheṇa[4] ……, rohaddurvāragarvā api[5] ……..
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
kāryakāraṇayorbhinnadeśatāyāmasaṅgatiḥ/
Sāhityadarpaṇa., X. 69
[2]:
navakiṃśukakarṇapūramanyā dayitena svakarārpitaṃ babhāra/
bata tatkṣaṇameva tatsapatnyāḥ prakaṭāpāṭalamānanaṃ babhūva// Śrīkaṇṭhacarita., VIII. 35
[3]:
Jonarāja also comments-lauhityakāraṇaṃ kiṃśukadhāraṇamanyatra lohitamanyadityasaṅgati…./
Ibid., VIII. 35, page 116
[4]:
Ibid., XX. 6; also, Jonarāja opines—kāryakāraṇayordeśabhedādasaṅgatiḥ/
Ibid., XX. 6, page 280
[5]:
Ibid., XXIII. 52