Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.32

v2.c79.32

19 This phrase in Bharata cannot mean "expression by means of a synonym", for it would then be difficult to differentiate this *doṣa* from *ekārtha* given below. Possibly this is the fault which appears in later writers as the figure of speech known as *paryāyokta* (= roughly, circumlocution or periphrase as a poetic figure). It is apparently so explained by Abhinavagupta. It is possible that later rhetoricians perceived that periphrase might sometimes be an ornament of expression, and thus analysed it into a poetic figure; and this may be taken as an instance in point of the process by which poetic figures multiplied themselves in later speculation.