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

FIRST PARICCHEDA 31
or connected must contain वक्रोक्ति and स्वभावोक्ति, A clever
presentation and a natural description. The refer-
ence here is not to the Alaṁkāras by that name.
But it may be pointed out that Alaṁkāras named
वक्रोक्ति and स्वभावोक्ति are also recognised by Bhāmaha.
Vide I—36 and II—93 and 94. युक्तं वक्रस्वभावोक्त्या has
to be repeated. The first one is to be taken along
with तत्पुनः in the first half where तत् refers to अनिबद्धं.
The second one is to be taken along with सर्वमेवैतदिष्यते
which refers to all the types of poetry enumerated
above. Thus the general characteristic of good
poetry is that it should contain वक्रोक्ति and स्वभावोक्ति
elucidated above.
वैदर्भमन्यदस्तीति मन्यन्ते सुधियोऽपरे ।
तदेव च किल ज्यायः सदर्थमपि नापरम् ॥ ३१ ॥
31. Other learned men hold,—There is a differ-
ent one, viz., the Vaidarbha or the poetry of Vidar-
bhas. Perhaps as they think, that alone is superior,
not any other poetry though possessed of good sense.
31. In this and the succeeding verses Bhāmaha
attacks the twofold classification of poetry into वैदर्भ
and गौडीय, which seems to have been in vogue in his
times. वैदर्भ is the type of poetry prevalent in the
Vidarbha Deśa, and Gauḍīya is that prevalent in
the Gauḍa Deśa. Vaidarbhas are described as दाक्षि-
णात्याs or the southern school to which Daṇḍin belongs
and to which evidently Bhāmaha did not belong.