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ADHYAYA V The definition of play has been given already by हेमचन्द्र as 'शब्दार्थो सालङ्कारी काव्यम् "-words and sense full of poetic ornaments constitute poetry. If words and sense form the body of poetry, the figures of speech are its ornaments that hang on the body. These ornaments (i. e. figures of speech ) are again twofold : one class belonging to words and the other belonging to sense i. e. Teem and 379fert. In the fifth chapter the author exhaustively deals with the six शब्दालङ्कारs.
In the first Sutra the figure 879e is defined :
Repetition of consonants constitutes the figure oggle.
(1) Either one consonant or more than one may be repeated at close intervals.
(2) This repetition as a rule should heighten the effect of some Sentiment (Te).
(3) One consonant only once repeated does not lend any charm. A single consonat should, therefore, be repeated many times.
(4) But two or more consonants may be repeated only once.
Thus in the verse 430, a single consonant is repeated many times and hence the charming effect.
In the following verse however (431) more than two consonants , # , are repeated only once: 3750TOFTETT-A 41A-2114 703-9105.
In the following verse (432) a pair of two conso. nants (or a group of three consonants) is only once repeated.
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