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Pradhanya and Vidheyatva. They always go hand in hand. Hence prominent non-mention of this important factor in a sentence is also a blemish.
The eighth and the last poetic blemish occurring both in a word and a sentence is Viruddhabuddhikṛt or one that causes repugnant suggestion or Implication. This also occurs when the compound is resolved in another way, as e.g.. the word Akäryamitra, i.e., (1) an unselfish friend (2) 'a friend in evil'. The second sense is repugnant to the first sense, which is intended. However, the first method involves a Lakṣaṇā and SO the second sense is more readily apprehended. Secondly, this blemish occurs when two nouns. are so compounded as to form a third noun, which by custom, has a sense, opposed to that sense which is yielded by the two nouns; as e.g., Galagraha. Several other varieties are also illustrated where a sense repugnant to the intended sense is suggested. Hence it is no blemish if the repugnant sense is intended. In a sentence, a number of ambiguous words lead to this fault. But when this ambiguity is deliberate, blemish occurs.
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Arthadoṣas Explained
Hemachandra enumerates twenty blemishes pertaining to Sense. The blemish of Kaṣṭatva or obscurity of sense arises out of clumsiness of construction (Verse 370; K.P. VII, V. 268). Apuṣṭārthatva or Superfluity and Irrelevance is instanced when a sense which is not at all pertinent to the subject in hand is thrust in a verse. However, irrelevance is also understood by Mammata as implying inconsistency or tautology. So irrelevance or superfluity yield two types of this fault and reflect on the poet's deficient powers. In Slesa or paronomasia etc., where a display of figures of word such as alliteration etc. is the is no blemish principal point, there of this kind, viz. Apuṣṭārthatva.
The other blemishes of Sense, with self-explanatory and tell-tale names, are Vyahatatva (Contradictoriness), Gramyatva
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