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is the first of these faults. When the construction is so very clumsy that no reader is able to understand the sense of the verse without great effort, the verse is said to have the fault of. The instance in point is the verse 368 the full explanation of which has been given by and it is quite right that he should give it, otherwise very few of the readers would have understood the verse.
which is the next in the list, is a fault which occurs when a statement which is not at all pertinent to the subject in hand is unnecessarily thrust in a verse.
For instance, in the verse 369 the subject is that I crossed the ocean; naturally, therefore, the various adjectives of the ocean (that it was dark as the leaves of a tree etc.) do not in any way add to the beauty of the main statement.
In the following verse full of jingling alliteration there is not a single phrase that has any charm of sense. Only there is a series of sweet-sounding words. व्याहतत्त्वम् is a fault arising from two naturally contradictory statements; this is illustrated in the verse 372.
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In the first foot is the statement' kill your enemies.' But strange to say, in the third foot occurs the statement there is not a single enemy of yours a statement perfectly contradictory to the one in the first foot.
अवैदग्ध्य is stating a thing in a bald almost an indecent manner.
The verse 373 is an instance in point. The whole statement is utterly unpoetic and extremly vulgar, for there is no charming suggestion what-so-ever in the
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