Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.61

v2.c79.61

36 The "agreeable sense" (*sukumārātha*), which corresponds to the *aniṣṭhurākṣara-prāyatā* of Daṇḍin's *guṇa* of this name, or to the *ajaraṭhatva* or *apāruṣya* of Vāmana's twofold *saukumārya*, implies probably the avoidance of disagreeable or inauspicious (*amaṅgala*) statements. Thus instead of *mṛtaḥ*, one should say *kīrtiśeṣaṃ gataḥ*. It is on this ground that theorists after Mammaṭa object that this is no *guṇa* but a negation of the *amaṅgala doṣa*, which some writers include in the fault known as *aślīlatva*.