Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.34
Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.34
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v2.c84.34
¹⁵ Hence, the word "poetic" figure or kāvyālaṃkāra, instead of "figure of speech." See above Ch. II. pp. 94. In a formal scheme of Poetics they no doubt correspond, but this point of view of its involving poetic charm would be entirely omitted in a treatise of rhetoric. It is therefore misleading to translate Sanskrit Alaṃkāra as Sanskrit Rhetoric. See ZDMG, lvi, 392 fn.