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In another verse a poet congratulates those philosophers who believe that the soul pervades the whole body for how could it be otherwise when a kiss at the lips sends the thrill to the whole body at once.2
It is obvious that in each case the poet is concerned with making poetry and he uses the beliefs solely to that purpose.
Poetry may be made with almost any idea from any branch of knowledge. It is therefore prescribed for the poet that he should acquaint himself with different branches of learning.
advances of the lover, conveys her
But the poet's own experience of life and the world" is not of less importance. This also furnishes him with a potent soruce of Artha. Rajasekhara divides it into two classes; general which is commonly shared by all and sundry, and particular" which is acquired through acquaintance with different people and places and through an ability to read human psychology in specific situations.
It is not however binding that the poet should take his Artha from his studies or from his experiences of life alone; he may as well invent.
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The different sources cannot be put into separate water-tight compartments. Poetry in no case can suffer an isolation from life. The common ground where the poet's knowledge and imagination must converge is life. Remote ideas and beliefs will lead him to obscurity. He picks up only such as have some currency in life. And his invention also follows the pattern of life. So a poet might apparently draw upon the past literature or write from his personal experiences or invent the idea for his poetry-in each case he is drawing from the common stock-that is life.
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