Auchitya

 Auchitya is a Hindi word taken from Sanskrit. It means justification, propriety, decency. Propriety can be defined in this context as the details or rules of behavior conventionally considered to be correct. Or that which is correct, appropriate, and fitting. The word Auchitya also contains the Hindi word “Uchit” which in English means “appropriate”.

Kshemendra  : He introduced Auchitya in his book AuchutiyaVicharCharcha. Kshemendra was born in the present day Kashmir. He is one of the best Sanskrit poets of the 11th century. Kshemendra was the pupil of the famous philosopher and poet Abhinavgupta.

Aucitya is defined as harmony and in one aspect it is proportion between the whole and the parts, between the chief and the subsidiary. This proportion is all the morals and beauty in art. Almost all the aestheticians—Bhamaha, Dandin, Lollata, Rudrata and Abhinava Gupta—speak about Aucitya. The term was not used by Anandavardhana as it came to be used after his time.

Anandavardhana lays down that the ‘soul’ of poetry is Rasa or Rasa-dhwani. The most essential thing in rasa is Aucitya. The Aucitya of character and action are essential for the derivation of rasa. Nothing hinders rasa as anauchitya or impropriety. Aucitya or propriety is the greatest secret of rasa.

Rajasekhara, the author of Kavya-mimamsa, speaks of Aucitya under poetic culture and leaning and opines that all poetic culture is only the discrimination of the proper and the improper, Ucita and Anucita (Raghavan, 253) Abhinava Gupta takes his aesthetic position on the tripod of Rasa, Dhwani and Aucitya.

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