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the purely subjective. In fact he repeats the illustrations of Ananda Vardhana in many cases.

SUGGESTIVE POETRY DISTINGUISHED FROM UNSUGGESTIVE. A meaningful composition of words, possessed of the appropriate qualities and embellishments of words and meanings, is called suggestive poetry (Dhvanikāvya), provi- ded that both, the words and their conventional meanings, suggest the suggestible meaning and in the total æsthetic configuration occupy a position subordinate to the suggested. Thus, it is clear that the suggestive poetry is different from that which possesses the poetic qualities and embellishments of words and meanings. For, while the' latter is concerned with words as sound symbols and their conventional meanings, the former is characterised by the predominance of the suggested meaning. Hence the latter cannot include the former. 1. The experience, stimulated by the suggestive poetry, is different from that which is aroused by the unsuggestive poetry. In the former case, it consists in the subjective realisation of a basic mental state through complete self-forgetfulness and consequent identification with the focus of the presented situation. In the latter case it consists in the objective visualisation of the presented. Thus, while in the former case, one always has the experi- ence of one of the eight or nine types of emotive state ; in the latter only the feeling of wonder and the sense of admiration are aroused. (II) The latter may be called an imitation of the former ; because the most essential characteristic of an

1. Dh. L., 33.