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Sanskrit Sahityasastra
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such concentrated on the study of the language patterns in poetry; they seem to have highly disciplined minds. When they quote an erotic verse as an illustration of a certain point in poetics they dwell precisely on that aspect of the verse. It is interesting to note that their minds do not care to notice the sensations such verses might produce in ethical contexts.
Finally, we must not lose sight of the great truth so beautifully expressed by 18 Dhanamjaya :
"There is nothing in this world a poetic mind cannot appreciate-may it be beautiful or disgusting, great or mean, terrifying or pleasing, incomprehensible or perverse (? obvious) real or fictitious”.
In other words, life in all its aspects has a place in literature. It is for the poet to present it in a beautiful form.
18. i guHTEETH fta
मुग्रं प्रसादि गहनं विकृतं (? विवृत) च वस्तु । यद्वाप्यवस्तु कविभावकभाव्यमानं तन्नास्ति यन्न रसभावमुपैति लोके ॥
. . -Dasar Upaka IV. 85,
