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Incidentally Mammața takes up the two sub-divisions of the Adhamakāvya, viz., Sabdacitra and Arthacitra, for further treatment in the 6th flash of the Kavyaprakāśa. He notes there : The two kinds of poetry - the one striking in the word and the other striking in the meaning - have been mentioned before; the existence of the striking sense or the word is by the subservience or prominence of either the sense or the word. He adds in the gloss that it is not that in word-portraits there is no strikingness of the sense; or in the portrait of sense that of the word; as Bhāmaha (l. 13-15) says that even the charming face of a lovely lady does not shine without ornaments. It is this that they call beautification of the word (Saußabdya); there is no such perfection of the meaning on account of the division of poetic figure into that of word and sense, both the beauty of the words and depth of ideas, i.e., सौशब्द्य and अर्थव्युत्पत्ति, are desired by us.
From a critical stand-point Hemachandra's threefold division of poetry is completely in agreement with the conventional divisions offered by Mammața, although he differs from the latter's view of the types of the गुणीभूतव्यङग्य.
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