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from the Dhvanyāloka and adds a few more of his own. His treatment of this topic is thus fairly comprehensive.
The first verse quoted here is from Hala's anthology of Prakrit lyrics (no. 175) called the Gathāsaptasati. Introducing the verse in Prakrit, the author of the Dhvanyaloka observes that "Even the first variety itself (ie. Vastu) differs widely from the expressed sense. In fact, very often the suggested sense will be prohibitive in sense while the expressed is of the nature of a positive proposal". The verse is Bhama Dhammia etc. in Prakrit (Bhrama Dharmika etc. in Sanskrit) and is wellknown to students of Sanskrit Poetics. In this verse, the suggested sense is quite the opposite of the expressed sense since an injunctive idea is diametrically opposed to a prohibitive advice. The verse purports to be an exhortation expressed with reference to a recluse who used to roam in the thickets on the bank of Godavari to pluck flowers for his daily worship. Now, this exhortation is uttered by a wanton woman who secretly meets her lover under a bougher in the same woods, As the frequent visits of the recluse disturbed the lovers, the woman wanted to scare away the recluse who, she knew, was a timid fellow. So, she thought of stopping the man from coming permanently and thinks of an idea, concocts a tale or story. Thus, she very innocently tells the man to keep moving about freely in the place since the dog which used to frighten him daily has recently been killed by the lion who frequented the thick forests on the bank of the Godavari,
Hemachandra comments on this verse by saying that the woman who was very clever pretended to be innocent and addressed the pious man who disturbed her rendezvous by telling the recluse that the advent of a lion can be dangerous for him, and hence he should not move out.
This verse is so cleverly addressed as to show the innocence of the lady who is asking the man to "move freely". As we can see, the verse "Bhrama Dharmika, etc." directly exhorts the man to move freely but suggests unmistakably that the
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