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# Mandaramaranda 17.47

Mandāramaranda 17.47

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [17.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.katha.mandaramaranda.17.47)

keṣāṃcidatha doṣāṇāmapyadoṣatvamucyate  
samāptapunarāptatvaṃ sarveṣāṃ na hi saṃmatam  
aprayuktatvamadhikapadatva\[ma\]samarthatā  
śleṣacitropayogitvādoṣatvaṃ na bhajetkvacit  
nirarthakatvaṃ śabdālaṃkāre śleṣe ca na kvacit  
saṃkīrṇārthāntarasyaikapadatve citrayorna hi  
śleṣe kvacicca gūḍhārthaneyārthatvena doṣatām  
śāstrārthe na yaterbhaṅgaścārutve nātimātratā  
citre kvacinna sākāṅkṣakramabhraṣṭatvakaṣṭatāḥ  
apadasthapadatvaṃ cāpyapadasthasamāsatā  
dhvanau saṃdigdhaniyamacyutatvena kvacitkvacit  
apuṣṭārtho na doṣāya prayojanavaśātkvacit  
vibhānti puṣpastabakairlatāḥ kāntā iva stanaiḥ  
hetoratiprasiddhatve nirhetoḥ syādaduṣṭatā  
vadanaṃ vīkṣya tanvaṅgyāḥ saraḥpadmānyalirjahau  
nīrasādau kvaciddoṣo na doṣo nāpyasau guṇaḥ  
parjanyastarjayāmāsa garjitairlarjitairjanān

### [17.47.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.katha.mandaramaranda.17.47.p1)

vastutastu kavīnāṃ ceddhṛdayānandakāraṇam  
na duṣṭaṃ syādanyathā cedduṣṭatāṃ bhajati dhruvam

### [17.47.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.campu.katha.mandaramaranda.17.47.p2)

iti kāvyadoṣaprakaraṇam

## Linked texts (2)

- [Mandāramarandacampū](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.samgraha.daksinatya.mandaramarandacampu.10.255_129) — Kṛṣṇanātha 1600, Sanskrit
- [Mandāramaganda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.samgraha.other.mandaramaganda.16.47) — Kṛṣṇamiśra, Sanskrit

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