Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c79.66

v2.c79.66

*śṛṅgāra* and *adbhuta rasas* makes this *guṇa* of Bharata correspond partly to Vāmana’s *artha-guṇa kānti*. But Daṇḍin adds : *ślāghyair viśeṣaṇair yuktam udāraṃ kaiścid iṣyate*. There is no reference in Bharata to such ‘praiseworthy epithets’, although Hemacandra says : *bahubhiḥ sūkṣmaiś ca viśeṣaiḥ sametam udāram iti bharataḥ*. In the *Agni-purāṇa* 346, 9, however, we read : *uttāna-padatau dāryam yutam ślāghyair viśeṣaṇaiḥ*, which might be a direct echo of Daṇḍin.