Anandavardhana (820-890) was the author of the philosophy of "aesthetic suggestion" (Dhvanyaloka). The philosopher Abhinavagupta wrote an important commentary on it. Events Michael II succeeds Leo V as Byzantine Emperor The Historia Brittonum is written (approximate date) Births Rhodri Mawr (the Great), ruler of Gwynedd (Wales) (approximate date) Photius I, patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date) Deaths December 24: Leo V, Byzantine Emperor (assassinated) Shankara, Hinduist teacher Tang Xian Zong, emperor of... Events The sovereignty of prince Svatopluk I in Bohemia is confirmed. ... Abhinavagupta (c. ...
Anandavardhana's work is, however, a culmination and synthesis, not only of alamkara analysis, but of rasa theory as well.
Again, Anandavardhana combined the two strains of Sanskrit poetics developing them into a unified theory of aesthetic response, in part, based on the concept of dhvani or "suggestion." By the time of Anandavardhana, Sanskrit theorists of "figures of thought" had isolated several varieties of meaning, literal and metaphorical.
Specifically, in the strictest sense, Anandavardhana tells us, dhvani is rasadhvani, the dhvani of rasa-not the intellectual implication of some sentiment, but the "suggestion" of a rasa as an affective experience (see Abhinavagupta's comments on Anandavardhana in Locana 70).
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