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in many places, but according to the poetic convention they are found only in the river arsquif.
This is a faJa ie. restricting a thing to a particular place.
All these poetic conventions should first be thoroughly understood by a poet and then observed in his poem. Now it is impossible for a new poet who studies the poems of his predecessors not to borrow, consciously or unconsciously, words, phrases, some lines or sometimes even ideas from them. Such borrowing, when unconscious, is of course not culpable. But even conscious borrowing is, in certain cases, not blameworthy. Says frater:“ A1Fait: magat, arcraatat afara77a: 1
978fa faali arazi et gralla ETH " (#10 #fo 99 ). The generality of poets is prone to borrowing. A poet may, with impunity, borrow froin other poets provided the borrowing (or stealing as the says ) is done in such a clever manner as not to incur the censure of the reading public.
___ According to अवन्तिसुन्दरी (as quoted by हेमचन्द्र in his faa) a poet, who is thoroughly conscious of his own superior genius or is a man of established reputation, may freely borrow even the poem of a poet-aster and sometimes from illustrious poets of the past. To quote the words of A. G. Gardiner:--
"Shakespcare can take his 'borrowed plumes' from whatever humble bird he likes... These Gods are beyond the range of our pettifogging 'meums and tuums.' Their pockets are so rich that a few coins that do not belong to them are no matter either way. But if you are a man of exiguous talents and endeavour
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