Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.41

v2.c79.41

Bhāmaha also adds another fault to these ten, viz., the *doṣa* which arises from a faulty logical proposition (*pratijñā*), a faulty middle term (*hetu*), and a faulty logical illustration (*dṛṣṭānta*); but this blemish is treated separately in the next chapter (ch. v), being interesting to Bhāmaha from the standpoint of the logic of poetry. In another context, while discussing the general characteristics of poetry (i 37f), Bhāmaha mentions ten other defects which a poet should avoid, viz., i. *neyārtha* = farfetchedness, when the sense does not follow from the logical order of words but has to be guessed out from the general intention, ii. *kliṣṭa* = obstruction of the sense, iii. *anyārtha* = disappearance of the sense, iv. *avācaka* = inexpressiveness, when in the expressed words the sense does not appear to be openly dominant, v. *gūḍhaśabdābhidhāna* = use of difficult expressions, vi. *ayuktimat* = impropriety, e.g. making clouds messengers in poetry, vii. *śruti-duṣṭa* = expressly indecent ²⁶ viii. *artha-duṣṭa* = implicitly indecent (later writers calling it *aślilatva*), ix. *kalpanā-duṣṭa* = difficult conception (?), where in the alliance of two words an undesirable sense is produced, x. *śruti-kaṣṭa* = unmelodious or harsh in sound ²⁷.