Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.51

v2.c79.51

³² The *cūrṇapada* is defined by Bharata himself in XVIII 50b, 51. Cf also Vāmana I. 3. 22, 24 where *cūrṇa* is the name given to a kind of prose which contains short compounds. Commenting on this passage in Vāmana, Gopendra Tippa Bhūpāla interprets the word as: *cūrṇapadena upacārād vyasta-pada-samāhāro lakṣyate, tena vyasta-pada-bahulaṃ cūrṇam*. Vāmana himself in his *vṛtti* gives two characteristics, viz., *adīrgha samāsa* and *anuddhata pada*, short compounds and soft vocables. Referring to Vāmana's *śabda-guṇa* of the same name in III. I. 12., and trying to approximate it to Bharata's *samatā*, Abhinavagupta remarks: *śabdānāṃ samatvāt samaḥ, cūrṇapada-samāsa-racanā yatra sā sātiśayā na bhavati,......dīrgha-samāso'pyatyanta-samāsaś ca viṣamatā, tad-viparyayeṇa samatā, upakrānta-mārgûparityāga-rūpêtyuktam*.