1. Prepared by: Virji Bathvar
Topic: Dhvani school
Roll no:1
paper no: 07 Literary criticism
submitted :Department of English m.k.b.u
email id: bathvarvirji@gmail.com
3. 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.
4. “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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
10. 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.
