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P. 13. A. 1. S. 9. )
14 in two ways: काव्यं वेत्ति and काव्यं विन्ते one who composes a poem or one who is a critic of poetry. Under the instructions of such a man a poet-aspirant should constantly practice. For, genius is sharpened by practice and becomes as it were a TI ( wish-yielding divine cow) in yielding the nectar of a poem (718212a).
Aa=2 here quotes a passage in support of his emphasis on practice:
“Priat felag etc. " It means:---It is the practice alone that brings about a skill in anything.
"True ease in writing comes from art not chance'. as the English poet would have it. One drop of water, alone, cannot wear out a stone.'
मम्मट also, in his काव्यप्रकाश, emphasizes on this point by saying 'faTafetanta'. 2477 closely follows AFAZ in this respect.
The best discussion on this point is found in apurier in which the author has, in a detailed manner, given instructions as to how a poet-aspirant should proceed gradually with his study of composing poems.
In the following discussion, 2497 has very closely followed rate and has copiously drawn upon the eleventh and the twelth chapter of काव्यमीमांसा.
What a poet-aspirant should do, is to keep before him the poems of great poets as models and try to imitate them in a skilful manner.
A peculiar feature of Sanskrit poetry is its poetic convention. hat in his plezataiat defines poetic convention (or fagna ) as follows:--
“ 3161enitaalfthüq qzarrardi anelgaftaufa 991: afat AT:” ( 516 pto 14th chapter ) poetic convention describes things neither accepted to be such by the Fials nor
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