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(10) The fault of Sankirņatva or Confusion consists in the insertion into a sentence of words belonging to a distinct sentence. In other words, there is a confusion of sense because the words of two or more sentences are mixed up together. For instance in the Prakrit verse (256), Hemachandra points out in the gloss the proper order of the sentences.
However, when sentences come in a string, as in smart dialogues, there is no fault of Sankirņatva as in the famous verse (257) cited here.
This fault thus consist in a delayed or even an undesirable apprehension of meaning. The word "Vākya' in "Vākyāntara', used in the definition of this Doşa, serves to point out that here a simple sentence is meant, not a complex or a compound one. The difference between Klişta and Sankirna is that, while in the former, absence of proper meaning is due to the position of words in one and the same sentence, in the latter, confusion prevails due to the mixing up of words in distinct sentences.
(11) Garbhitatva or Use of a parenthesis occurs when in one sentence another sentence is inserted parenthetically. Thus a distinct sentence is wholly inserted in a (1) principal sentence or (2) between two clauses of the principal sentence. The verse (258) 974#TT etc. illustrates the first kind wherein the sentence "Vadāmi... etc." inserted parenthetically thrusts itself un-necessarily in the main sentence 'Parapakara ... etc.'. The same verse is cited by Mammața and Udyotakāra observes that the inserted sentence is capable of yielding a meaning, but in Sankirņatva it is not so. In fact, in Saňkīrṇatva, some words only of one sentence are inserted into another; but in Garbhitatva, one whole sentence is inserted. However, the essence of the fault (want of proximity) is the same in both. When use of Parenthesis becomes a Guņa
Nevertheless, when the speaker is in a flurry of some emotion, such insertions add grace to the style. Thus, for
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