Jivanandana of Anandaraya Makhin (Study)
by G. D. Jayalakshmi | 2019 | 58,344 words
This page relates ‘Analysis of Bibhatsa-rasa’ of the study on the Jivanandana (in English) which is a dramatic play written by Anadaraya Makhin in the 18th century. The Jivanandana praises the excellence of Advaita Vedanta, Ayurveda (medical science) and Dramatic literature as the triple agency for obtaining everlasting bliss.
Analysis of Bībhatsa-rasa
This sentiment creates disgust and detestation. This ill feeling further creates aversion and hatred. Ānandarāya Makhin handles this rasa in the selected and suitable occasions:
(i) In the second Act of this play, the author chooses to highlight the Bībhatsa rasa through the dialogues of diseases like Kuṣṭhas, Arśas, Pramehas and Gulma-Plīhāṇas. This is possible because each one of these four groups, describes himself in such a way which naturally creates aversion in the minds of the viewers.
For instance, the Kuṣṭhas declare (II.14cd) that on entering the city (body) they would make it abhorrent even to look at:
śatroḥ praviśya puramīkṣitumapyayogyaṃ kurmo vayaṃ tanubhṛtāmatikutsanīyam ||
(ii) Pramehas, take a step further by saying that they will dry up the city which has the secretions of blood, flesh, fat, bone and fluids of bone marrows (II.18ab; p.95):
prasrāvākhyāṃ pariṇatimasṛṅmāṃsamedo'sthimajjā-svātanvanto vayamanudinaṃ tatpuraṃ śoṣayāmaḥ |
(iii) The poet continues to employ this Bībhatsa in the sixth Act also where the fearful war between the two armies is reported (VI. 43 ab):
ābhimukhamavekṣamāṇaṃ śaśarudhirāliptatanumimaṃ...... ||
The description of the disease Vyaṅga as one who is looking straight and having his body smeared with rabbit’s blood itself creates an aversion in the minds of the viewers.