A History of Sanskrit Literature c16.s1.77

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c16.s1.77

The art of building a stanza with a limited number of letters¹ leads, as we have seen both in Bhāravi and Māgha, to tasteless extravagance, but it can be used without any lack of effect, as in the following stanza ascribed to Çāçvata:

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