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Never Returned to Pen: Indological Inquiries into Literary Form · Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Hermeneutics of Aucitya (Aesthetic Propriety)

Kṣemendra argued that Rasa without Aucitya is like a decorated jewel placed on an unseemly frame. Propriety is the life-breath of poetic truth.