Kavyalankarasarasamgraha 7.44

7.44

"iti /
aṅgaśabda iṣṭāmantraṇe /
śuddhaguṇatvātsvadamānaṃ sadalaṅkāravikalpakalpanābhirvihitaparicayamatiśayena svadate iti saṃbandhaḥ /
ata evālaṅkārāṇaāmanityatā /
guṇarahitaṃ hi kāvyamakāvyameva bhavati, na tvalaṅkārarahitam /
alaṅkārāṇāṃ guṇorahitaṃ hi kāvyamakāvyameva bhavati, na tavalaṅkārarahitam /
alaṅkārāṇāṃ guṇopajanitaśobhe kāvye śobhātiśayavidhāyitvāt /
taduktam----
"kāvyaśobhāyāḥ kartāro dharmā guṇāḥ /
tadatiśayahetavastvalaṅkārāḥ /
pūrve nityāḥ /
"iti /
pūrve iti guṇā ityarthaḥ /
lakṣye ca alaṅkārarahitamapi kevalaguṇasaṃskriyamāṇaśabdārthaśarīraṃ kāvyaṃ dṛśyate, yathā amarukasya kaveranibaddhaśṛṅgārarasasyandī ślokaḥ---"kathamapi kṛtapratyāpattau priye skhalitottare virahakṛśayā kṛtvā vyājaprakalpatamaśrutam /
asahanasakhīśrotraprāptipramādasasaṃbhramaṃ vivalitadṛśā śūnye gehe samucchvasitaṃ tataḥ //

The word *aṅga* is used in affectionate address.
The construction is: being relished because of its pure qualities, it is relished exceedingly when familiarity is created through continuous creations of genuine varieties of ornaments.
For this very reason ornaments are non-essential.
For poetry without qualities is truly non-poetry, but not [poetry] devoid of ornaments.
For poetry without qualities is truly non-poetry, but not [poetry] devoid of ornaments.
Because ornaments produce an excess of beauty in poetry whose beauty has been produced by qualities.
So it has been said:
“Qualities are properties that produce poetic beauty. / Ornaments are the causes of its excess. / The former are permanent.”
“The former” means qualities.
And in actual usage, poetry is seen to have its body of word and sense embellished solely by qualities even while devoid of ornament, as in the verse of the poet Amaruka overflowing with uncompounded aesthetic relish of love:
“When her beloved somehow regained his composure after a slip of the tongue, the woman, emaciated by separation, pretending not to have heard through a clever ruse, / with a glance turned askance in flurried agitation lest it reach the ears of her intolerant confidantes, then breathed a sigh of relief in the empty room.”