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long list of the poetic conventions that are to be obsei ved by poets. We have already explained the nature and kinds of these conventions. हेमचन्द्र, however, goes into details and gives various illustrations. Some of the conventions appear proper and natural but others are really fanciful. For instance: darkness is supposed to be gladia' that can be caught in the palm of one's hand' or it can be perforated through, with a needle.
The word fall in the 10th Sutra is interpreted by 49 in two ways:--(1) restriction of a thing to a particular place or time-for instance cuckoos, are supposed to warble only in spring. This sense has been explained and illustrated above. (2) faut is nothing but a peculiar variety of poetic convention in which, some things though different from one another are considered as identical. eg: the colours dark and green, yellow and red are supposed to be identical.
The hare and the deer in the moon are identical, crocodiles and fish are one and the same, in their relation with the God of love; the moon born of the ocean is the same as the one born of 3ft. Goddess of wealth and Goddess of beauty are identical. Am and all (cobras and serpents ), all the different seas and oceans, and all the epithets of demons are identical.
Eyes are supposed to have various colours. The moon on the crest of the God Shiva is supposed to be ever young! The God of love is both corporeal and incorporeal etc.
For almost everyone of these poetic conventions, हेमचन्द्र gives some illustration in his विवेक.
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