Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v2.c85.30

v2.c85.30

Finally, the poetic figures (*alaṃkāras*), which are treated substantially after the manner of Mammaṭa and Ruyyaka, are defined as those non-permanent attributes of a word and its sense which add to their beauty and thus embellish the *rasa* indirectly. The term ‘non-permanent’ (*asthira*) is explained, after Mammaṭa⁷, by the statement that the presence of the *alaṃkāras* is not necessary but accidental, as compared to the *guṇas* which are necessary attributes.