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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
48.488. This verse is already dealt with; vide DHV S.No. (14.8) supra.
49.488. TTTO (Tafakarf:) - Her hair which have enjoyed (and are enjoying at the
moment) the proud privilege and pleasure of contact with her buttocks;
ETYTUOTT (FHITIUS) - who has been standing up after a total bath from head to foot; सामलंगी (श्यामलागी) - the maiden or woman having dark-coloured or darkish complexion; DERIT HOT (TARTA ) - as if on account of the fear of being tied up again in the form of a ver (braid of hair) and of being deprived of that privilege and pleasure. The figure in this verse is Utpreksă (Fancy).
50.488. This verse is already dealt with; vide ŚP S.No. (87.58) supra. 51.488. This verse is already dealt with; vide DHV S.No. (33.12) supra. 52.488. This verse is already dealt with; vide SK S.No. (369.414) supra 53.489. This verse is already dealt with; vide ŚP S.No. (92.59) supra.
54.489. Note: Hemacandra, following the lead of Kuntaka, the author of
Vakroktijīvita, reduces the number of alaskāras (figures). Mammata's Kávyaprakāśa treats of 61 arthālamkāras. Hemacandra's Kāvyānusasana reduces this number to 29. He denies their claim to rank as independent figures on grounds like the following; some of them represent nothing but the absence of poetical defects, some others do not contain any special charm (arising from the exercise of the poet's creative imagination - pratibha - which is so essential for an alamkāra), still some others fall under one or the other of the accepted alamkāras and still a few others are themselves of the nature of alaskārya (what is to be adorned). For want of space it is not possible even to summarise these discussions. In those cases where Hemacandra differs from his predecessors, we simply note the name of the figure according to Hemacandra and also his predecessors.
This gātha contains the figure Upamā (dvilope vākyagā), Kāvyaprakāśa (Jhalakikar's edn, p. 575) deals with it.
