काव्यालङ्कार (आचार्य भामह - भारतीय काव्यशास्त्र एवं अलङ्कार-सिद्धान्त मूल महाग्रन्थ सटीक)

10 BHĀMAHĀLAṄKĀRA
12. Not being a poet does not conduce to sin
sickness or punishment. But being a bad poet, wise
men declare, is directly tantamount to death.
12. Not being an author does not entail any
evil. But being a bad author brings infamy. In the
place of नाकवित्वं at the beginning of the verse, Mr.
D. T. Tatacharya reads merely अकवित्वं perhaps
on better manuscript authority. But the inter-
pretation of the reading omitting न involves a good
deal of strain. Mr. Naganatha Sastri reads न at
the beginning. The citation in Kāmadhenu, com-
mentary on Vāmanālaṁkāra (I-iii-22) also reads न
at the beginning.
रूपकादिरलंकारस्तस्यान्यैर्बहुधोदितः ।
न कान्तमपि निर्भूषं विभाति वनितामुखम् ॥ १३ ॥
13. Its adornment like Rūpaka and others is
propounded by others in several ways. Even the
charming face of a damsel does not shine, stripped
of ornament.
13. Having dealt with the purposes & equip-
ment of poetry, the author proceeds to deal with
its adornment. In Verse 15 the author declares that
the classification of literary embellishments into
two classes viz., शब्दालंकार and अर्थालंकार is acceptable to
him. In fact these three Verses 13, 14 & 15 are
bodily quoted by Mammaṭa in his Kāvya Prakāśa,
Ullāsa VI to substantiate the twofold classification of