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somewhat different from the eightfold classification of poets given for the first time by Rajasekhara in his Kavyamimamsă30. Whereas Rajasekhara names the groups of poets and adds stanzas to illustrate the type of literary composition of each one of them, Vijayavarṇī gives a definition of each one of the groups of poets but does not illustrate the types of their literary composition-SC and Alankarasangraha, however, agree in their classification and definition of groups of poets leading to the conclusion that one of them must have borrowed from the other31.
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In the same chapter the author treats of the fourfold sense of words: 1 Mukhyartha with its four kinds ((i) Jāti (ii) Kriya (iii) Guna and (iv) Dravya) 2 Lakṣyārtha 3 Gauṇārtha and 4 Vyangyartha, and the fourfold power of words: 1 Abhidha 2 Lakṣaṇā (with its three kinds : (i) Jahati (ii) Ajahati and (iii) Jahatyajahati) 3 Gauni and 4 Vyañjanā. It is the Mimamsakas who look upon Gauni as a separate power of words 32.. This whole discussion is, generally speaking, based on Kayyaprakāśa (Ullasas II and III).
30, Vide Appendix-C
31.
Vide Appendix-D
32. गौणोवृत्तिर्ल क्षणातो भिन्नेति प्रभाकराः । Ratnāpana (p. 44 ).
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Vidyanatha, however, emphatically says:
रपि लक्षणाभेद एव ।
Prataprudrayasśobhūṣaṇa
44-45)
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