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found in everyday life. It accepts some things merely handed down by tradition and rejects some things though found in everyday life. This acceptance and rejection of things merely on the strength of tradition is four-fold:-(1) with regard to set ie. class (2) with regard to gor ie. quality (3) with regard to some action (4) with regard to some particular thing (784).
Now this poetic convention deals with these fourfold things ( Filayofan) in three ways:
Sutra 10th (1) gatszaa:—Some things that actually exist in a particular place or at a particular time are supposed by poetic convention as not exist ing. For instance:-- In spring mâlati flowers are actually seen blooming; but the poetic convention regards these flowers as not at all existing in spring! Sandal trees have got flowers but a poetic convention would have us believe that they never exist! This then is the afara ie. not describing some things as existing even when they do exist.
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(2) असतोऽपिनियन्धनम् Every river has not necessarily lotuses in it. But a poetic convention allows the poets to describe every river as abounding in lotuses ! To a poetic fancy every reservoir of water is full of swans and every mountain is treasured with gold ! Describing, therefore, things which are not actually found in a certain place is stagisa faqa .
FATA:-Some things, or some creatures are generally found everywhere. For instance, crocodiles are found in rivers as well as in seas, but a poetic convention restricts their habitation to seas only. Pearls are found
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