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P. 238. A. 3. S. 6.)
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The whole verse suggests the sense of a drunkard by its ambiguous words and hence the fault. When the ambiguity is deliberate and suggests some happy sense, it is no fault.
Thus in the verse 323 which means:
“Oh king! now our houses are exactly similar; for they have gold pots ( Frá Fatra), all the servants in them are decked with ornaments, and they are bristling with female elephants.” The apparent sense deals with the praise of the king. But inwardly the poet is censuring the king for keeping him in poverty, for he says: 'My house is full of the crying (SET) of children ( 94 ); all the members of my family ( 4+ siga) have to sleep on the bare ground; my house is full of dust.' As here the ambiguity is deliberate, it leads to no fault.
argfaariza is the next fault. It occurs when the words, used, convey a meaning totally against the context. For instance : quarð 3917781: means “ who have become animals in the sacrifice in the form of a battle. Now qı almost means a timid animal such as goats and others. But the context requires the sense of valour and hence the fault is अनुचितार्थत्व.
In the following verse the king is compared to a dog, and in 326 the Sun to a spark of fire-both the similes militate against the sense of propriety or proportion and hence the fault.
In the verse 327 the creator is made a standard of comparison for a tiny 1913 bird !
And in 328 the navel of a woman is compared to the vast nether worlds and her breasts to mountains --all instances of absurdity as regards proportion (अनौचित्य as it is technically called).
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