236 Srt Caitanya-caritamrta [Adi-lila, 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
AAAI FITS CHIRP COPTRAAST |
stays VHIUM Prrartera TET 29 I
rasdlankaravat Ravyain dosa-yuk ced vibhisitam

syGd vapuh sundaram api svitrenaikena durbhagam

SYNONYMS
rasa—with humors; alafkaravat—with ornaments (metaphors, similes, etc.);
Révyam—poetry ; dosa-yuk—faulty ; cet—if; vibhasitam—very nicely decorated; syat—
it becomes so; vapuf—the body; sundaram—beautiful; ap/—even though; svitrena—
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.’

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TEXT 72

ie SRTETAA ars WAS FApts |
Be ateveta, fen wef-cereya 11 92 1

pafica alankdrera ebe Sunaha vicara
dui sabdalankara, tina artha-alankara

SYNONYMS

pafica—five; alankérera—of the literary embellishments; ebe—now; sunaha— just
hear; vica@ra—description; dui—two; $abda-afankGra—ornaments of sound or orna-
ments of words; tina—three; artha-alankGra—ornaments of meaning.

TRANSLATION

“Now hear the description of the five literary embellishments. There are two
ornaments of sound and three ornaments of meaning.
