パーリ修辞学書Subodhālaṅkāraにおける隠喩理論に関する一考察

抄録

The Indian science of rhetoric (alaṅkāra) systematizes figures of speech. While a large number of classical works on Sanskrit rhetoric have been handed down to us, Pāli rhetoric has only one extant treatise: the Subodhālaṅkāra, written by Saṅgharakkhita. This paper discusses how metaphor is defined and how the theory of metaphor is developed in the Subodhālaṅkāra.

This paper concludes with the following two points. First, the definition of metaphor in the Subodhālaṅkāra is an eclectic mix of that in the Kāvyādarśa and the Kāvyaprakāśa, and the classification of the types of metaphor in the Subodhālaṅkāra is derived from that in the Kāvyālaṅkāra. Second, the method by which the Kāvyaprakāśa sorts out metaphors and similes presented in a compound justifies the idea that the examples of metaphorical compounds given by the Subodhālaṅkāra are correct cases of metaphors.