काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

90 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
भेदा अष्टादशास्य तत् ॥ ४१ ॥
अस्येति ध्वनेः ॥ ४१ ॥
ननु रसादीनां बहुभेदत्वेन कथमष्टादशेत्यत आह ।
रसादीनामनन्तत्वाद्भेद एको हि गण्यते ।
अनन्तत्वादिति । तथाहि—नव रसाः । तत्र शृङ्गारस्य द्वौ
भेदौ । संभोगो विप्रलम्भश्च । संभोगस्यापि परस्परावलोकना-
लिङ्गनपरिचुम्बनादिकुसुमोच्चयजलकेलिसूर्यास्तमयचन्द्रोदयषड्-
Thus there are eighteen varieties of it.
‘of it’—i. e. of Suggestion. 41.
Objection :—“There being many varieties of Passion
(Emotion and so forth),—why are the varieties of sugges-
tion said to be eighteen only ?”
The answer to this is as follows :—
The varieties of ‘Passion’ and other forms being endless,
these (Passion, Emotion, etc.) are counted as a single variety.
‘Endless’.—For instance, there are nine Passions ;—
of the Erotic Passion there are two varieties —that in
union and that in privation ;—the former has several
varieties, in the form of ‘mutual glances’, ‘em-
brace’, ‘kissing’, ‘flower-picking,’ ‘amorous water-
sports’, descriptions of sunset, rise of the moon, the six
seasons and so forth ;—the Erotic in privation again has
been already described as being of several kinds, such as
longing and so forth ;—then again, these two kinds of the
Erotic vary with the variations in the particular Excitants,
Ensuants and Variants ;—the hero again is of three kinds,
noble, ignoble and middling ;—these vary with the pecu-
liarities of time, place and other circumstances ;—so that
of the single Passion of the Erotic there are ‘endless’
varieties ;—not to speak of others ?