Dhvanyalokalocana 103
English (machine translation) 103
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103.2
By this reasoning one should pursue the vast expanse of aesthetic relish and the rest, / supported by which the path of poetry has attained infinity even mutually. //
103.3
This extensive path characterised by aesthetic relish, emotion, their semblances, and their calming, through the consideration of their respective determinants and consequents, as explained previously—all of this must be pursued by this method. By resorting to which [relish etc.], this poetic path, although trodden in many ways by thousands or countless ancient poets, reaches infinity though bounded. For relishes, emotions, and the rest possess unboundedness on each occasion because of their reliance upon determinants, consequents, and transitory mental states. And in relation even to each single subdivision of theirs, the ways of the world, when composed by good poets, are transformed into something completely different by the force of their desire, even though they remain otherwise. This has indeed been established on the occasion of the investigation of pictorial poetry. And a verse has indeed been composed here by a great poet:
103.4
That speech within the realm of an extraordinary poet triumphs,
which implants in the heart specific meanings as if they were present,
even when they are not so situated.
103.5
Thus, through the recourse to aesthetic relish, emotion, and the like, the infinite nature of poetic meanings has been well established. Just to demonstrate this, it is said: