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But even here, those things that play an important part in the development of the story must be described. For instance, if the story has some political event as its subject-matter, then againfartøyphic: ( Foglasi qf. 9/90) secret plans, the sending of envoys and other essential things must be described. If, on the other hand, the story contains a love-affair, then the description of seasons, sun-rise, moon-rise, water sports and others is quite necessary. Even supposing that the love-story is a short one, the poet should make it a point to bring in the description of seasons moon-rise and other pertinent things even by making a digression.'
Generally the Sanskrit word used for the chapters of a fel?139 composed in Sanskrit is pt, for those of a महाकाव्य composed in प्राकृत it is either आश्वास, or सन्धि, or 8477ha. But there is no hard and fast rule as regards the word for a chapter; for even in Sanskrit poems we find the word efire used for a chapter as for instance in aftgate.
There is a rule that the metre for every chapter should be different; but the rule is not so rigid as we find in सेतुबन्ध and other महाकाव्यs one and the same metre used throughout the poem.
After the definition of a Her#182 the author defines an afar. Its important features are:
(1) It is an autobiography of some towering personality who is, of course, the hero of the TezTf141. In an autobiography, however, the narration of one's own exploits and virtues, as made to the readers in general would be rather out of etiquette; to obviate
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