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Sāhityadarpaṇa · Chapter 1
1.1
śrīḥ
sāhitya-darpaṇaḥ
kārikā-mātraḥ
(1)
prathamaḥ prakāśaḥ
śarad-indu-sundara-ruciś cetasi sā me girāṃ devī /
apahṛtya tamaḥ santatam arthān akhilān prakāśayatu
1.2
caturvarga-phala-prāptiḥ sukhād alpa-dhiyām api /
kāvyād eva yatas tena tat-svarūpaṃ nirūpyate
1.3
kāvyaṃ rasātmakaṃ kāvyaṃ doṣās tasyāpakarṣakāḥ /
utkarṣa-hetavaḥ proktā guṇālaṅkāra-rītayaḥ
Original text: Sāhityadarpaṇa · Edition: Satyavrata Simha, 9th edition. Varanasi: Chowkhamba Vidya Bhavan, 1992. (Vidya Bhavan Sanskrit Granthamala, 29) · Data entry Jan Brzezinski · GRETIL (Göttingen) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0