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to its corner; the fifteenth is dilated; the sixteenth is drooping; the seventeenth is full of wave-like movements; the last three are full of tears. Thus, owing to some particular condition every eye is working in a different way.
Here the figure anal faithfully describes the different workings of all the eyes, but it, in no way, enhances the effect of the predominant sentiment.
From the following Sutras the discussion, of the various sorts of senses attributed to words, is taken up; in the fifteenth Sutra enumerates four types of words as follows:-there are four kinds of words (1) directly expressing; (2) similar; (3) indicative; (4) suggestive; corresponding to four kinds of senses of words viz (i) expressed (ii) similar (iii) indicated (iv) suggested.
Here it will be noted that
mentions four kinds of words and correspondingly four kinds of senses instead of the usual three-fold division of words and senses as made by almost all the rhetoricians of note, ancient and modern, such as मम्मट विश्वनाथ and others. All these mention only three kinds of words and correspondingly three kinds of senses and put oft as a subdivision of लक्ष्यार्थ. Why हेमचन्द्र should mention (sense based on resemblance) as seperate from लक्ष्यार्थ, is not very clear.
In the following sutra (16th)
defines
expressed sense thus:
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