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Hemachandra's Kliştatva occurs when there is a delay in apprehending the sense of a verse or a sentence owing to its fauity Syntax or its clumsy construction and results in obscurity of meaning. He adapts Mammața's words. Mammața had provided (K.P. VII. 51) that the blemishes of the Obscure, the Prominent non-mention of the Predicate or of the Apodotic or of the Emphatic and the Repugnant Implication or Suggestion occur in a comound only.
However, when the words remain separate, the blemish belongs to a sentence. Thus the blemish arising from the want of juxtaposition is a sentence-fault only. It may be noted that Obscurity is no fault when the adjectives are peculiar to certain persons such a Rāvana, Siva, etc., or in Enigma or Paranomasia, etc., when a delayed apprehension is desirable. And in the case of a drunkard etc., it is even an excellence.
Avimrstavidheyāņģatva or the blemish of Non-discriminated in predicate occurs where the predicative part is not principally stated, as Hemachandra puts it. This blemish pertains to a word and a sentence. This blemish is one of the most prominent blemishes, and it has attracted much attention of the theorists. According to Mr. Mitra, the translator of the Sahityadarpaņa, the Sanskrit word 'Vidheya' "is not restricted to the sense of predicate' but is used also in the signification of a word that gratifies the expectation raised by a previous word, as also in the sense of one on which a stress is laid". For this reason, Mr. Mitra has coined the adjective Apodotic from the Greek word Apodosis which, in Greek, means the completive part of a sentence, which gratifies the expectation raised by the Protasis or the introductory part. Now, the prominence of the predicate implies its capability of being apprehended as the predicate and it has that capability when it is expressed after the subject, and is not subordinate to it. Thus this blemish extends to the verses Nyakkāro etc., and Kṣaṇamappa etc., because in the former, the required prominence is absent and in the latter, an express nagation
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