काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER IV 79
अमितः समितः प्राप्तैरुत्कर्षैर्हर्षद प्रभो ।
अहितः सहितः साधुयशोभिरसतामसि ॥ ५६ ॥
अत्रापि विरोधाभासः ।
निरूपादानसंभारमभित्तावेव तन्वते ।
जगच्चित्रं नमस्तस्मै कलाश्लाघ्याय शूलिने ॥ ५७ ॥
अत्र व्यतिरेकः ।
devoid of beauty,’ a contradiction ;—(d) ‘matimānatattvavṛttiḥ’,
taken as one word, means ‘who acts with mati, intelligence, and
māna, magnanimity ;’ but when resolved into two terms, it means
‘matimān, intelligent’ and ‘atattvavṛttiḥ, acting blankly,’ an apparent
contradiction ;—(e) ‘pratipadapakṣāgraṇīḥ’, as one term, means the
‘agraṇīḥ, of your pakṣa, party, pratipada, at each step’ ; but when it
is resolved into two terms, it means ‘pratipat, the first day of the
fortnight, and ‘apakṣāgraṇīḥ, not the opening day of the fortnight’,
an apparent contradiction.]
[Here also the suggestion of ‘Seeming Contradiction’ would be
lost if other synonyms were substituted ; hence it is held to be ‘based
upon the force of words’.]
[Another example of the same kind]
‘Amitaḥ samitaḥ prāptairutkarṣairharṣada prabho
Ahitaḥ sahitaḥ sādhu-yaśobhirasatāmasi.’
Here also Seeming Contradiction is the figure suggested.
[The meaning is ‘prabho, O Lord, harṣada, you who are the
giver of joy, (harṣam dadāti) and also the destroyer of joy (harṣam dyati),—
through the glories attained in battle (samitaḥ) you are ‘amitaḥ’ immea-
sureably great, (you are both samitaḥ, measureable, and amitaḥ, immea-
sureable) ; being endowed, sahitaḥ, with good fame, you are the ahitaḥ,
enemy, of all wicked men.’ The epithets are so chosen as to imply,
in their second intention, an apparent contradiction.]
[Another example of the same kind.]
‘Salutation to that Trident-bearer whose art is so
praiseworthy that he paints the mundane picture without
aboard and without the painting brush or other accessories:’