काव्यालङ्कार (आचार्य भामह - भारतीय काव्यशास्त्र एवं अलङ्कार-सिद्धान्त मूल महाग्रन्थ सटीक)

SECOND PARICCHHEDA 71

are identified with elephants, the showers of rain
are identified with streams of ichor. शक्रकार्मुकमेव वारणः
येषां ते शक्रकार्मुकवारणाः. वारण means वारवाण. Clouds would
be provided with rainbow. Elephants are provided
with housings. The rainbow on the Upameya side
is identified with an elephant's housings on the
Upamāna side. Most of the manuscripts read शक्रकार्मुक-
कारणं. This will perhaps mean 'by reason of the
rainbow which is exhibited.' But this reading will
militate against the character of the रूपक as समस्तवस्तु-
विषय. इमे जलददन्तिनः निर्यान्तः सन्तः Emerging out or pervad-
ing the sky. मदयन्ति Rouse infatuation (of lovers).
In the place of मदयन्ति there is also a reading मण्डयन्ति,
and in the place of वारणाः or कारणं a different reading
is काननं. Thus the Chowkhamba edition reads the
2nd half of the verse as निर्यान्तो मण्डयन्तीमे शक्रकार्मुककाननम्.
Of course काननं मण्डयन्ति may be interpreted as—The
elephants of clouds beautify the forest of the rain-
bow. But the idea does not seem to be a happy
one. We hear of the rainbow beautifying the
clouds, not vice versa. The reading वारणाः in the
place of कारणम् or काननम् is suggested by Mr. D. T.
Tatacharya without manuscript authority, but we
have accepted the same as being a most happy read-
ing. He cites Vāchaspatya for treating वारण as a
synonym for वारवाण. In this verse, since showers of
rain, the rainbow and the clouds are identified with
streams of ichor, housings and clouds, all the factors