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as regards place, time, age, caste, dress and others has been defined and illustrated in minutest details by in his commentary which the readers may read with advantage.
Impropriety, as the author of faite rightly says, is the serious cause of the handicap of a Th.
In the following sutras, the author mentions the faults of a word. They are two-fold:
(1) facciacah uselessness. No unnecessary word should be used in a poem. For instance, the words a à afe should never be used unless they are necessarily required in the context. For instance i,n verse ( 201 ) fa in the last line is absolutely useless.
कांदिशीक-frightened. दर dread.
Even the fraction of a word should not be useless. For instance, in the following verse ( No. 202 ):
The woman is whetting (9174) the arrows of cupid, first by the fire of seperation in her heart, then by her eyes (hot with grief ) then by the hot tears.
Here the word Etih in plural serves no purpose.
If a means the movement of an eye, as is found in the verse ( 203 ) from 37#, then there is no fault.
In * and other figures of words, fazárra is not regarded as a fault by some. For instance, in the verse quoted from f1391572, 7, ag and others, though superfluous, are not to be condemned as faulty.
(2) असाधुत्त्व occurs when the word used is ungrammatical.
For instance, in the verse ( 205 ) from faraisena:B , coming out of the river of arrows, as a crocodile comes up from the Ganges, struck with his two hands at the chest of Shankar.
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