नाट्यशास्त्रम् (प्रथम भाग - अभिनवभारती एवं हिन्दी टीका सहित)

300 THE NATYASASTRA [ XVII. 6-

Accusation of Virtue (guṇātipāta), Excellence (guṇātiśaya), Inference from Similitude (tulya-tarka), Multiplex Predication (padoccaya), Description (diṣṭa), Pointed Utterance (upadiṣṭa), Deliberation (vicāra), Inversion (viparyaya), Slip of Tongue (bhraṃśa), Mediation (anunaya), Series of Offers (mālā), Clever Manner (dākṣiṇya), Censure (garhaṇa) Presumption (arthāpatti), Celebrity (prasiddhi), Interrogation (pṛcchā), Identity (sārūpya), Indirect Expression of one's Desire (manoratha), Wit (leśa), Concealment (saṃkṣepa)$^3$, Enumeration of Merits (guṇa-kīrtana), Semi-uttered Expression (anukta-siddhi) and Compliment (priyavacana = priyokti).

Ornateness

6. $^1$To adorn the composition with many figures of speech (alaṃkāra) and Guṇas as if with ornaments, for creating manifold meanings is called Ornateness (bhūṣaṇa, lit. ornament)$^2$.

Compactness

7. $^1$When an wonderful sense is expressed by means of a small number of syllables with double entendre, it is called the mark named Compactness (akṣara-saṃghāta, lit. assemblage of syllables)$^2$.

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$^3$ Emend saṃkṣobho to saṃkṣepo. See below 38 note 1.

6 (C.6; B.p 350, XVI.6) $^1$ A close study of Ag's. commentary on passsages dealing with lakṣaṇas is liable to give one an impression that the exact meaning of some of the terms at least relating to this subject, has been to some extent lost, and various explanations have been partly based on guess. But in the absence of anything better we are to depend on them though very cautiously. Definitions of various lakṣaṇas are mostly not at all clear without examples which have been very liberally given by Ag. To avoid prolixity we refrain from quoting them here. Interested persons may see them in the Baroda ed. of the NŚ. (Vol. II pp. 294ff.). For an example of bhūṣaṇa. See Kavi. As any old commentary to these (NŚ.) passages dealing with lakṣaṇas, has not come down to us, we used in this connexion the one prepared by M. Ramakrishna Kavi. See B. II pp. 348ff. (Referred to as Kavi).

7 (C.7; B.p.350, XVI.7). $^1$ See Kavi.