काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER IV 77
तत्र
अलङ्कारोथ वस्त्वेव शब्दाद्यत्रावभासते ॥ ३८ ॥
प्रधानत्वेन स ज्ञेयः शब्दशक्त्युद्भवो द्विधा ।
वस्त्वेति, अनलंकारं वस्तुमात्रम् । आद्यो यथा
उल्लास्य कालकरवालमहाम्बुवाहं
देवेन येन जरठोर्जितगर्जितेन ।
निर्वापितः सकल एव रणे रिपूणां
धाराजलैस्त्रिजगति ज्वलितः प्रतापः ॥ ५४ ॥
Suggestion based upon the force of the word is of two
kinds,—according as what is principally represented by the
word is (a) a figure of speech or (b) a bare matter of fact. 38.
‘Bare matter of fact,’—i. e. the simple statement of a
fact, without any ornamental figure of speech.
(a) As an example of the former we have the follow-
ing—
‘Ullāsya kālakarabālamahāmbuvāhaṁ
Devena yena jaraṭhorjitagarjitena
Nirvāpitaḥ sakala eva raṇe ripūṇāṁ
Dhārājalaistrijagati jvalitaḥ pratāpaḥ.’
Here the literal meaning of the sentence would be
distinctly irrelevant ; hence with a view to avoiding this,
it has to be assumed that what is intended is to describe
the similarity between the directly mentioned subject
(the king) and the one only indirectly implied (Indra) ;
and thus what comes to be suggested here is the figure
of speech known as ‘Simile’.
The full meaning of the sentence being ‘Just as Indra brings
up the cloud, dark and fresh, and accompanied by fierce thundering,
extinguishes, by means of torrents of rain, the heat of the destructive
fires pervading over the three worlds,—in the same manner has this king