Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c82.s1.9

v2.c82.s1.9

⁵ Strictly speaking, *grāmya* is not ‘vulgar’ in its usual restricted sense, although Daṇḍin seems to bring under its connotation the *aślīla* or the indecent. It means ‘the low’, ‘the rustic’, or ‘the common’, as opposed to the noble or the refined, and probably corresponds to the French word *vulgaire*.