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Classification of Poetry
861 do the work and also to keep the mouth shut). After getting money tries to get more (as if by blackmail). No illustration is cited by Bhoja.
The ND. (IV./3) accepts Bhoja's definition verbetim. The name given to this artform is “durmilitā”.
BP. of śāradātanaya has both "durmallikā” and also “mallikā”, which we will take up later. Bhoja's durmilikā and ND.'s durmilitā is “durmallikā” in BP., which observes - (pp. 391, Ch. IX/51, 52, 53; Edn. Agrawal, ibid) :
"atha durmallikā nāma praudhanāgara-nāyikā caturankā catussamdhir, garba-samdhi-vinā-kstā vito vilasati svairam, prathamánke (tri) nāļikāḥ. viduşako dvitīyénke vilasat pañca-nādikaḥ, pīķhamardo viharati tỉtīye sapta-nāļikāḥ, vitā"di-tritaya-krīdā caturthe daśa-nāļikaḥ. - IX/51 caurya-rati pratibhedam yūnor anurāga-varnanam kvā’pi, yatra grāmya-kathābhiḥ kurute kila dūtikā rahasi. mantrayati ca tadvisayan - nyag-jātitvena yācate ca vasu, labdhvā’pi labdhum icchati yā sā durmallikā nāmnā. enām durmallikām anye prāhur matta-mallikām iti. IX./52 yasyām udbhāvyaḥ syāt purohitā’mātya-tāpasā"dīnām, prārabdhā’-nirvāḥ,
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