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(5) It may contain tricks of words, conundrums, pictorial
figures etc. (6) It may sometimes have some special words, names of the
author etc. at the end of the canto or the poem.
As for beauty of content or meaning, the following points are mentioned :
(1) The four goals of life are securable through the poem.
So it should have at least one of these as its aim. (2) It has a hero who has sterling qualities of character. (3) It depicts Rasas and Bhavas. (4) It should suggest good actions and prohibit bad ones
and should contain poetic justice. (5) A new poet should know how the different factors of
style etc. should match with the subject or Rasa and
how a balanced poem is written. (6) It contains descriptions of seasons, cities, rivers, wars,
expeditions etc. (7) It also describes sun-rise, sunset, moon-rise etc. (8) It should give delightful pen-pictures of the Heroes,
Heroines, the princes etc. (9) It shold have accounts of political happenings and of
wars etc. (10) It should have description of excursions, water-sports,
drinking bouts, wooing, mating etc.
in regard to beauty of both form and meaning, the following points emerge : (1) The style must be Komala, i.e., full of soft words, if the
poet describes love and so on. (2) The metre should be conducive to Rasa. According to
Sanskrit critics, certain metres suit certain sentiments.
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