To
put a very complex subject in simple terms, dhvani is two things. It is the emotional meaning of
poetry in the Pracina and Navina schools of poetry in Sanskrit. Dhvani is poetry that adopts the
avenue of suggestion through emotion; it is not devoid of the concrete, like description, but it
elicits suggested emotion as its core meaning.
More often called the
Dhvani">Theory of Dhvani, this very complex subject starts with the difference
between the expression and the meaning. Dhvani is the expression that bridges the two schools
and gives the essence of each. Pracina school stops with the concept of expression, which leaves
the story or narrative of the poem as an incidental in light of the words that embody it, the
dhvani that embodies it. The Navina school carries dhvani further by suggesting a yielding to
the emotion that is suggested by the dhvani thus giving the content, the story, a place with the
embodying words.
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