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when the incompatibility of two things compared leads to a deliberate censure. This fault occurs in a word as well as a
sentence.
Cacophony is a well-known word-fault. It consists of such harsh letters or syllables as manifest the excellence called Ojas and depress the principal sense. Such words are faulty only in case of a Rasa that is possessed of Madhurya; since in the Heroic etc., they heighten the sentiment. It is not a blemish when a grammarian is a speaker, when there is imitation of another. Mammaṭa's Pratikūlavarṇatva is a sentence fault occurring in Rasa-poems. Hemachandra illustrates cacophony in a sentence and states (VII. 59) that "owing to the propriety of the speaker etc., even a blemish becomes excellence in certain cases, and in others, it is neither the one nor the other". We can see to what extent Mammaṭa's codification of Dosa holds away over later writers like Hemachandra, Viśvanatha and others. These later authors not only accept Mammata's views and comments but also his illustrative verses. In this connection, one realises the truth of Dr. V. Raghavan's remarks:
"Hemachandra's treatment of Dosas in Chapter III..... is almost a reproduction of Mammaṭa's Chapter on Doṣas. Hemachandra accepts all the Rasadosas; most of Mammata's Pada-dosas and Vakyadosas are accepted..... All the Arthadoṣas.....are also accepted... .The number, nature and illustrations of all the flaws are the same. In (his) own commentary on his work, Hemachan dra has given additional matter drawn from Anandavardhana and Mahimabhaṭṭa under the heads of Rasadoṣas, Avimṛṣṭavidheya and Prakrama and Krama Bhangas."
(Bhojas Ś'r. Pr., p. 246)
Similar views are also expressed by Shri Trilokanath Jha in his paper in the Journal of Bihar Research Society, Vol. XLIII (1-2) in connection with Hemachandra's
indebtedness
to Mahimabhaṭṭa.
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