Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c84.38

v2.c84.38

on the ground that when the *rasa* is predominant and forms the essence of the poem in question, it constitutes the principal suggested element, and as such it is *alaṃkārya*; but when it is subordinate to the expressed sense, it constitutes mere *alaṃkāra* or embellishment (*Dhva*° ii 4 f). The °*Pradīpa* puts this concisely by saying : *yatra pradhānaṃ rasādis tatra dhvaniḥ, yatra tvapradhānaṃ tatrālaṃkāra iti bhāvaḥ*. Logically following this view, Mammaṭa does not regard the cases of *rasavat* etc., as poetic figures at all, but only as a variety of *guṇībhūta-vyaṅgya* poetry¹⁷.