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illustrated in the well-known gatha (237). Here the word Kamalani is repeated, and, on the strength of Suggestion, the second word Kamala has a vastly different sense and so the repetition produces no blemish. The repeated word 'Kamalani' means "fully expanded beautiful lotuses".
Besides, when the repetition of a word is done in order to re-state a thing already stated once, it is not only justified but is also quite necessary. Thus, in verse (238), the words 'Vinaya', 'Guṇaprakarṣa', etc., are justifiably and repeated without constituting a poetic blemish.
necessarily
(5) The next poetic blemish occurring in a sentence is Asthānapada, a Vakyadoṣa, containing misplaced words. Every word has to be used in its proper place, lest it should convey an absurd sense. Hemachandra explains this fault by a verse (f... etc., V. 239) from the Kiratarjuniya (VIII. 37), cited by Mammata in the same connection. "The lover knitted the garland... etc.". Here, the words 'nobody gave up the garland' ought to be arranged thus: 'A certain woman did not throw away the garland'. In other word, the word Na is misplaced before kacid, as न काचिद विजौ implies that not someone but all discarded the garland. Here Hemachandra's gloss agrees with that of Mammata. However, Hemachandra gives several more examples of the Asthanapada Vakyadoṣa. Thus in the well-known verse (...) from the Kumarasambhavam of Kalidas (V. 71) "Both of you have become objects of pity etc.", "Tvam ca", i.e., 'and you also" is the sense desired and, therefore, 'ca' should have come after 'tvam'. Hemachandra elaborates on this verse in the viveka commentary (p. 210). He observes that the word ca indicates Samuccaya or inclusiveness and should be used immediately after that object with which the inclusion is intended. Similarly the word ga: is also used immediately after the object to be excluded. It results in the poetic blemish of Asthānapada Vākyadoṣa if 'Punah' is used elsewhere. For example, in the verse (340)
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