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correct words from incorrect words. That work serves as a ground-work to the present work. In the present work, 49 has not even touched the subject of grammar and has merely referred his readers to PAGEA obviously because, he, being the author of both these books, does not find any necessity of repeating what he has already said elsewhere. To discuss the nature of poetry then, is the object of the present work. The subject matter is poetry. But what is the aim of poetry ? To this 2497's answer is as follows:
Sutra 3 : The object or aim of poetry is joy, fame and advice like that of a wife.
Poetry is the extraordinary creation of a poet (lipi fa# ) which the author explains as follows:' when a poet is informed with the spirit of poetic imagination, he is able to describe things in the most graphic way. The creation of the poet, under the influence of this sraut is called a poem (71154). The list of the aims of poetry as are here mentioned by man reminds one of a similar but more exhaustive list, (given by AFHC in his $15375818T) which runs as follows:
काव्यं यशसेऽर्थकृते व्यवहारविदे शिवेतरक्षतये ।
सद्यः परनिर्वतये कान्तासंमिततयोपदेशयुजे ॥ The aims of poetry are : fame (in most cases ) money, competency in everyday life, protection from evil influences, immediate supreme joy; and advice after the manner of a wife. It will be clearly seen that he has given prominence to supreme joy as the most important motive of poetry and rightly so. RAE's list seems to us to be a bundle of aims good, bad and indifferent. It is a list of aims of poetry that are found in the generality of poets. The aims that
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