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P. 41. A. 1. S. 14.
As a rule, even if a figure is fully developed it should be subordinated to the present. Then alone the figure is said to be agreeable to the present sentiment. This is illustrated in the following verse (11th) from कालिदास's मेघदूत :-- “ I fancy your limbs in the creeper ; your glances in the look of the frightened female deer; the beauty of your cheeks in the moon; your tresses of hair in the plumage of peacocks; the graceful movements of your eye-brows in the ripples of rivers. Alas! nowhere, however, is there any likeness of yours in all respects at one place, Oh timid one! In this verse the figure, which consists in fancying the limbs in the creepers and other things on the strength of resemblance, is not only introduced but substained throughout the verse; yet being subordinated to the principle sentiment of fait is permissible.
Here the reading is more appropriate than the reading a found elsewhere as shown by in his faa. A timid person is afraid of storing at one place all the precious things in his possession and hence, out of fear, distributes them at different places through fear of their being stolen.
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But such development is not permissible as for instance in the following verse (12th) which means:One of the twenty eyes of a is bent, another is contracted, a third is eager; a fourth is smiling; the fifth is full of significance; the sixth is half-closed; the seventh is turned back; the eighth is having a longrange; the ninth is full of joy; the tenth is contracted like a bud; the eleventh is trembling; the twelfth is steady; the thirteenth is rolling; the fourteenth is moving
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