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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Ādi-līlā, Ch. 16]
TRANSLATION
“One’s beautiful body may be decorated with jewels, but one spot of white leprosy makes the entire body abominable.
PURPORT
The great sage Bharata Muni, an authority on poetic metaphor, has given his opinion in this connection as follows.
TEXT 71
রসালঙ্কারবং কাব্যং দোষযুক্ চেষ্টিভূষিতম্ ।
স্তাঘপুঃ স্বন্দ্ররযপি খিত্রেগৈকেন দুর্ভগম্ ॥ ৭১ ॥
rasālaṅkāravat kāvyaṁ doṣa-yuk ced vibhūṣitam syād vapuḥ sundaram api śvitreṇaikena durbhagam
SYNONYMS
rasa —with humors;  alaṅkāravat —with ornaments (metaphors, similes, etc.);  kāvyam —poetry;  doṣa-yuk —faulty;  cet —if;  vibhūṣitam —very nicely decorated;  syāt —it becomes so;  vapuḥ —the body;  sundaram —beautiful;  api —even though;  śvitreṇa —by a white spot of leprosy;  ekena —one;  durbhagam —unfortunate.
TRANSLATION
“‘As one’s body, although well-decorated with ornaments, is made unfortunate by even one spot of white leprosy, so an entire poem is made useless by a fault, despite alliteration, similes and metaphors.’
TEXT 72
পঞ্চ অলঙ্কারের গ্রবে শুলহ বিচার ।
দুই শঙ্কালঙ্কার, তিন অর্থ-অলঙ্কার ॥ ৭২ ॥
pañca alaṅkārera ebe śunaha vicāra dui śabdālaṅkāra, tina artha-alaṅkāra
SYNONYMS
pañca —five;  alaṅkārera —of the literary embellishments;  ebe —now;  śunaha —just hear;  vicāra —description;  dui —two;  śabda-alaṅkāra —ornaments of sound or ornaments of words;  tina —three;  artha-alaṅkāra —ornaments of meaning.
TRANSLATION
“Now hear the description of the five literary embellishments. There are two ornaments of sound and three ornaments of meaning.