काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER IV 57
लोके प्रमदाभिः स्थाय्यनुमानेऽभ्यासपाटवतां काव्ये
नाट्ये च तैरेव कारणत्वादिपरिहारेण विभावनादिव्यापार-
वत्वादलौकिकविभावादिशब्दव्यवहार्यैर्ममैवैते शत्रोरेवैते तटस्थ-
स्यैवैते न ममैवैते न शत्रोरेवैते न तटस्थस्यैवैते इति संबन्ध-
विशेषस्वीकारपरिहारनियमानध्यवसायात् साधारण्येन प्रती-
तैरभिव्यक्तः सामाजिकानां वासनात्मतया स्थितः स्थायी
(D) The fourth explanation, propounded by the
revered Āchārya Abhinavagupta, is as follows :—
In the mind of such spectators as are proficient in the art
of feeling emotion, a particular emotion is already present,
in the form of ‘predisposition’;—lying thus latent, it
becomes patently manifested by such agencies as those
of women and other things, which, in ordinary parlance
are known as ‘causes’, (effects and auxiliaries); but in
poetry and drama, they renounce these names by reason
of their being endowed with the faculty of exciting and
so forth, and, on this account, come to be spoken of by
the extraordinary names of ‘Excitants’, ‘Ensuants’ and
‘Variants’;—these Excitants and the rest being recognised
in their most generalised forms, not partaking of any
restrictions due to either the affirmation or negation of
any of those specific relationships that are involved in
such conceptions as (1) ‘this is mine’ or ‘this is my
enemy’s’, or ‘this belongs to a disinterested person’
(where specific relationship is affirmed) or (2) ‘this is not
mine’, ‘this is not my enemy’s’, ‘this does not belong to
a disinterested person’ (where specific relationship is
denied);—though the said emotion actually subsists in the
particular spectator himself, yet, by reason of the genera-
lised form in which it is presented, the man loses, for the
moment, all sense of his separate personality and has his