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

30 BHĀMAHĀLAṄKĀRA
reason to divide prose into those two classes. Other
varieties of prose-composition seem to have been
recognised in the days of Daṇḍin and he says that
all of them can well be treated as representing one
species—अत्रैवान्तर्भविष्यन्ति शेषाश्चाख्यानजातयः.
However revolutionary might have been the
theory of Daṇḍin in his days, it should be admitted
that to the latter-day scholar and much more so to
the modern reader the whole controversy of Ākhyā-
yikā and Kathā is purely a matter of antiquarian
research. Viśvanātha in his Sāhityadarpaṇa makes
a feeble attempt to revive this distinction. But
we may take it that Daṇḍin's word is the last say
on the matter.
अनिबद्धं पुनर्गाथाश्लोकमात्रादि तत्पुनः ।
युक्तं वक्रस्वभावोक्त्या सर्वमेवैतदिष्यते ॥ ३० ॥
30. Sporadic poetry consists of songs, stray
verses and the like. It should contain a clever pre-
sentation and natural description. In fact this
feature applies to all the classes of poetry enume-
rated above.
30. अनिबद्धं Unconnected poetry—One or more
ślokas and the like. Bhāmaha takes care to point
out that a piece of poetry being sporadic does not
relieve it of the obligation to conform to the rules
of good poetry. युक्तं वक्रस्वभावोक्त्या Poetry, whether stray