Kshemendra in Kavikanthabharana introduces to auchitya school. It means justification, propriety, decency.He said Auchitya is the life of Kavya (Kavyasya jivitam) that is endowed with Rasa (Aucityam rasa siddhasya sthiram kavyasya jivitam). The most essential element of Rasa , he said, is Auchitya. The test of Auchitya is the harmony between the expressed sounds and the suggested Rasa. And , he described Auchitya as that laudable virtue (Guna) which embalms the poetry with delight.

1. By Dhatri Parmar

2. • Perfect, the most appropriate choice of subject, of
ideas, of words, of devices.
• Anandavardhana relates this principle
• specifically to rasa
• Ksemendra made aucitya the central element of
literariness.
• Aucitya as the property of an expression (signifier)
being an exact and appropriate analogue of the
expressed.
“Each thing in its place is best.”

3. • The Prime secret of Rasa manifestation is
conformity to well-known tenets of
propriety.
• Book of Kshemendra- Auchityavicaracarca
उचितम प्रहरकार्यः सादृस्म चकला र्स्य र्त।
उचितस्य का र्ो भावस्तदौचित्यं प्रिक्षते ॥
• Auchitya is the condition of being fit, the
state of being proper. When things match
perfectly, they may be said to be proper.

4. • Object od ridicule or awkward
• Auchitya has 27 Angas
(1) pada (phrase),
(2) vakya (sentence),
(3) prabandhärtha (meaning in whole composition),
(4) guna (excellences, qualities),
(5) alamkära (poetic figure),
(6) rasa (state of being),
(7) haraka (case-ending),
(8) kriya (verb)..
(9) linga (gender or marking),
(10) vacana (number),

5. (11) visesana (qualification),
(12) upasarga (prefix),
(13) nipata (redundancies),
(14) hala (time, tense),
(15) deia (country),
(16) kula (family),
(17) vrata (custom),
(18) tattva (truth),
(19) sattva (inherent self),
(20) abhipraya (motive),
(21) svabhava (nature),
(22) sära samgraha (essential properties), (23) pratibha (innate ability),
(24) avastha (condition, state),
(25) vicara (thought),
(26) nāma (name),
(27) asirvāda (blessings).

6. • These are the limbs or constituents of a
literary composition, ac- cording to
Kşemendra, and belong to different levels
or domains- of language, of ideas, of
creativity, of encyclopaedic information, of
poetic devices, of grammar.
• This can only discussed in the given
cultural and philosophical context.