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requires that the construction should be full of harshsounding words and hence there is no fault.
Sometimes when there is no particular sentiment in a verse, harsh-sounding words may be used as in the verse 340 which means:-May the rays of the sun remove your evils; rays-that restore to health men who are mutilated, maimed, weak etc.
f a delay in understanding the sentence owing to its faulty construction.
is the next fault which occurs when there is sense of a verse or a syntax or its clumsy
For instance, the first line in the verse 341 is very clumsy and it is with great difficulty that we understand what it means.' (i. e. seats of the moonstones. दक्षात्मजा = तारा दयित = lover, so the whole compound means the moon. Again - therefore दक्षा... वल्लभ means चन्द्रकान्त and hence the whole line means the seats made of moon-stones.
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The popular instance of f is the verse 342 quoted by and others.
The proper prose-order is given by . It is very difficult to make out anything out of the verse at the first reading, hence it is an apt illustration of clumsiness.
अविमृष्टविधेयांश is one of the most prominent faults. Every sentence has something that is predicated of the subject. This predicate is the most important thing in a sentence and hence it must be given a prominent place in it. But if that predicate (fa) is not given a prominent place which is its due, then there is this fault of ufayefadain.
For instance, in the verse 343 which means:"The body of Shankar is ugly, his birth is obscure
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