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Classification of Poetry
787 “muktakam kulakam koşaḥ samghāta iti tādņśaḥ, sarga-bandhāmśa-rūpatvād
anuktah padya-vistaraḥ.” But we may say that though as a unit or form muktaka and the like figure as portions of a bigger composition, they could have been separately mentioned. As independently also, such as the subhāșita and the like, they have their own identity. We will go to observe later that the Agnipurāna and the Sāhitya-darpaņa of Viśvanātha define or describe these minor compositions. The Agnipurāņa (337/36) suggests that a 'muktaka' is an individual verse capable of causing camatkāra or poetic effect :
"muktakam śloka ekaikaś
camatkāra-kşamah satām.” and the S.D. VI. 314-315 read as -
"dvābhyām tu yugmakam sandānitakam tribhir isyate, kalāpakam caturbhis ca
pañcabhiḥ kulakam matam.” We may say that these small groups of two, three, four of five individual verses have a common subject of narration and they may form part of a 'sarga' of a mahākāvya, or, even a laghukāvya, but they can be independent of them, i.e. even out of a mahākāvya or, a larger composition as well. “Kosa' is said to be a 'koşa' i.e. collection of individual verses having no expectancy of one another, “koṣaḥ śloka-samūhaḥ syād anyonya'napeksaka" iti. Samghāta is defined as,
“yatra kavir ekam artham vịttena ekena varņayati kāvye, samghātaḥ sa nigadito
vȚndāvana-meghadūtā”dih.” Prabhā quotes Harinātha who in a separate commentary (on K.D. ?) gives the definitions of these varieties as (pp. 15, ibid):
“ţikāntare harināthena pradarsitāni laksaņāni yathā - anyā’napeksa ekaślokanibandho muktakam. aneka-padyenaika-kriyanvitena eka-vākyártha-kathanam
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