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Kavyashastra (science of poetry)

Source: Shodhganga: Mālatīmādhava of Bhavabhūti (kavya-shastra)

Nihatārtha (निहतार्थ) refers to “(words) having its meaning supressed”, according to Mammaṭa-Bhaṭṭa’s Kāvyaprakāśa verse 7.50-51.—The doṣas (or “poetic defects”) are regarded as undesirable elements [of a composition]. Any element which tends to detract the poetic composition is a demerit in general terms. In other words, doṣas are the opposites of the guṇālaṃkāras. [...] In the Sāhityadarpaṇa, Viśvanātha says doṣas are five fold. [...] Mammaṭabhaṭṭa says that padadoṣa (or “defects of word”) are of sixteen types [i.e., nihatārtha (having its meaning supressed)].

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

Nihatārtha (निहतार्थ):—[=ni-hatārtha] [from ni-hata > ni-han] mfn. (word) whose meaning is out of use or obsolete (-tā f. -tva n.), [Sāhitya-darpaṇa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Nihatartha 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

Nihatārtha (ನಿಹತಾರ್ಥ):—[noun] (poet.) a blemish of using a word in a sense that is not popular, instead of its popular meaning.

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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: Hatartha, Ni.

Starts with: Nihatarthata, Nihatarthatva.

Full-text: Nihatarthata, Nihatarthatva, Aprasiddha, Shabdadosha.

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Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana (by Gaurapada Dāsa)

Text 7.7 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]

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Text 7.48 < [Chapter 7 - Literary Faults]

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Malatimadhava (study) (by Jintu Moni Dutta)

Part 5.3a - Pada-doṣa (defects of word) < [Chapter 2 - Literary Study of the Mālatīmādhava]

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