dhvani
ध्वनि dhvani'Suggestion, resonance'; in Sanskrit poetics the doctrine, cemented by Abhinavagupta's Locana commentary, that the highest life of poetry lies in what it suggests rather than what it states.
Where this term appears
- Who was Abhinavagupta? Lineages
Rasa, he said, is manifested , revealed through dhvani , poetic suggestion, in the heart of the sensitive spectator, the sahridaya .
- Rasa: emotion, beauty, and the arts as a spiritual science Philosophy
It is what the line suggests , the resonance he called dhvani , and that the highest suggestion of all is the suggestion of a mood, rasa-dhvani .