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

12 BHĀMAHĀLAṄKĀRA
pale of poetry. This view is entirely wrong. For
words and meanings together really constitute poe-
try. Mammaṭa representing the Siddhānta says—
शब्दार्थौ काव्यं. The view set out in the 1st half of the
verse that figures of speech are not an adornment
of poetry raises the question, ‘Then what else?’ ac-
cording to their school. The answer for the same
is furnished by the 2nd half of the verse. They
think that a proper formation of nouns and verbs
constitutes literary adornment. सुप् means a suffix
added to noun-stems and तिङ् is a suffix added to roots.
सुप् is used here in the sense of सुबन्त or a noun and
तिङ् in the sense of तिङन्त or a predicate. This verse
is cited by Mammaṭa in Kāvya Prakāśa, 6th Ullāsa
and by Premachandra in his commentary on Kāvyā-
darśa I—1.
तदेतदाहुः सौशब्द्यं नार्थव्युत्पत्तिरीदृशी ।
शब्दाभिधेयालंकारभेदादिष्टं द्वयं तु नः ॥ १५ ॥
15. Thus they prefer the proper formation of
words. But the proper presentation of ideas is not
the same as that. We prefer a combination of both
viz., elegant words and elegant ideas.
15. Bhāmaha condemns the school of thinkers
referred to in the previous verse. What they aim
at is no literary excellence but only सौशब्द्यं or gram-
matical correctness of words, but here in poetics we