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

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Rūpaka is एकदेशविवर्ति. माला in a compound shortens its
final vowel when followed by भारिन्. Vide Pāṇini:—
उष्ट्रकेषीकामालानां चिततूलभारिषु. Hence the form मालभारिन्.
दीपकालंकारः (२)
आदिमध्यान्तविषयं त्रिधा दीपकमिष्यते ।
एकस्यैव व्यवस्थत्वादिति तद्भिद्यते त्रिधा ॥ २५ ॥
अमूनि कुर्वतेऽन्वर्थामस्याख्यामर्थदीपनात् ।
त्रिभिर्निदर्शनैश्चेदं त्रिधा निर्दिश्यते यथा ॥ २६ ॥
25. Dīpaka is deemed threefold according to
the place where it rests, at the beginning or in the
middle or at the end. Since one and the same feature
is found at three stages the figure of speech is divid-
ed into three.
26. These make its name true to its meaning
by virtue of casting light over different objects.
This is set out in three manners by three examples.
25 & 26. The author treats of दीपकालंकार in Verses
25 to 29. Dīpaka is so called because the predicate
denoting an attribute common to several objects is
employed with reference to one which is availed of
by the others too in the same way as a lamp lit for
a house illumines the street as well. दीपसादृश्यात् दीपकं.
दीपक = दीप + कन् (इवार्थे). Vide Pāṇini :—संज्ञायां च. The
predicate may be placed almost at the beginning