The Sanskrit term Arthadoṣa can be transliterated into English as Arthadosa or Arthadosha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: Bhismacaritam a critical study

Arthadoṣa (अर्थदोष) refers to “defects of sense” and represents one of the various Kāvya-doṣas (‘poetic defects’), as employed in the Bhīṣmacarita (Bhishma Charitra) which is a mahākāvya (‘epic poem’) written by Hari Narayan Dikshit.—Mammaṭa says that Defects of Word are of twenty-three types (cf. Kāvyaprakāśa, VII.55-57).

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Kavyashastra (काव्यशास्त्र, kāvyaśāstra) refers to the ancient Indian tradition of poetry (kavya). Canonical literature (shastra) of the includes encyclopedic manuals dealing with prosody, rhetoric and various other guidelines serving to teach the poet how to compose literature.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Arthadoṣa (अर्थदोष).—a literary fault or blemish with regard to the sense, one of the four doṣas or blemishes of literary composition, the other three being परदोष, पदांशदोष, वाक्यदोष (paradoṣa, padāṃśadoṣa, vākyadoṣa); for definitions &c. see K. P.7. अलंकारशेखर (alaṃkāraśekhara) of केशवमिश्र (keśavamiśra) who mentions eight types of doṣas as follows: अष्टार्थदोषाः विरस, -ग्राम्य, -व्याहत, -खिन्नताः । -हीना, -धिका, सदृक्साम्यं देशादीनां विरोधि च (aṣṭārthadoṣāḥ virasa, -grāmya, -vyāhata, -khinnatāḥ | -hīnā, -dhikā, sadṛksāmyaṃ deśādīnāṃ virodhi ca) || 17

Derivable forms: arthadoṣaḥ (अर्थदोषः).

Arthadoṣa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms artha and doṣa (दोष).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Arthadoṣa (अर्थदोष):—[=artha-doṣa] [from artha] m. a mistake with regard to the meaning, [Sāhitya-darpaṇa; Kāvyaprakāśa]

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Arthadosha in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Arthadōṣa (ಅರ್ಥದೋಷ):—[noun] (rhet.) usage of wrong words, idioms, figure of speech that spoils the real import, considered as a literary blemish.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Dosha, Artha.

Ends with: Neyarthadosha.

Full-text: Dosha, Apushta, Apushtatva, Gramya, Ashlila.

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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)

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Text 7.91 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]

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Malatimadhava (study) (by Jintu Moni Dutta)

Part 5.3b - Artha-doṣa (defect of sense) < [Chapter 2 - Literary Study of the Mālatīmādhava]

Part 5.1-2 - Definition of Doṣa (poetic defects) < [Chapter 2 - Literary Study of the Mālatīmādhava]

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Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara (Study) (by Debabrata Barai)

Part 13 - Kāvyānuśāsana of Hemachandra < [Chapter 2 - A General Outlines of Sanskrit Poetics]

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