the twenty one defects to be avoided in the composition of
a sentence (see doṣa and vākyadoṣa); viz. not conveying ac-
curately by a sentence the intended sense, a. by connecting
syntactically words which have no logical relation to each
other, or b. by disconnecting syntactically words which are
logically connected, or c. by erring in the mode of con-
nexion; e. g. a. in the sentence yeṣāṃ tāstridaśebhadānasaritaḥ
pītāḥ pratāpoṣmabhirlīlāpānabhuvaśca candanatarucchāyāsu yaiḥ ka-
lpitāḥ . yeṣāṃ huṃkṛtayaḥ kṛtāmarapatikṣobhāḥ kṣapācāriṇāṃ kiṃ
taistvatparitoṣakāri vihitaṃ kiṃcitpravādocitam there is no
logical relation between the words in the relative and those
in the correlative sentence; or in the sentence anena cchi-
ndatā mātuḥ kaṇṭhaṃ paraśunā tava . baddhasparśaḥ kṛpāṇo'yaṃ la-
jjate mama bhārgava, the word paraśu, although intended to ex-
press the reason, has no logical connexion with the blame
uttered against Paraśurāma; (thus the old critics: the mo-
dern critics however find no fault with this sentence); or
b. in the verse yā jayaśrīrmanojasya yayā jagadalaṃkṛtam . yāme-
ṇākṣīṃ vinā prāṇā viphalā me kuto'dya sā, the word eṇā-
kṣīm ought to stand in the correlative sentence so as to
become connected with the three preceding relative sen-
tences which it is not now; (the Sāhityad. proposes to mend
the latter part of this Śloka thus: yāṃ vināmī vṛthā prāṇā
eṇākṣī sā kuto'dya me); or c. in the verse jyotsnā ca yaḥ
payaḥpūrastārakāḥ kairavāṇi ca . rājati vyomakāsārarājahaṃsaḥ
sudhākaraḥ, the word kāsāra standing in the same relation
to vyoma, as payaḥpūra to jyotsnā &c., it ought not to be part
of a compound, as this kind of syntax would affect the
whole simile; or in the sentence īkṣase yatkaṭākṣeṇa tadā dhanvī
manobhavaḥ the connexion between the two sentences ought
not to have been effected by yad--tadā, but by cet--
tadā. See also abhavanmatasaṃbandha.
II. Bahuvr. n. (-gam) A sentence in which this defect
occurs. E. a-bhavat-mata and yoga; the Bahuvr. scil. vākya;
(the word does not occur as a Karmadh., but only as a
Bahuvr., in the Kāvyaprakāśa; comp. the following).