काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER V 127
जनस्थाने भ्रान्तं कनकमृगतृष्णान्धितधिया
वचो वैदेहीति प्रतिपदमुदश्रु प्रलपितम् ।
कृतालंकाभर्तुर्वदनपरिपाटीषुघटना
मयाप्तं रामत्वं कुशलवसुता न त्वधिगता ॥१२४॥
अत्र शब्दशक्तिमूलानुरणनरूपो रामेण सहोपमानोपमेय-
भावो वाच्याङ्गतां नीतः ।
be cited as a pure unmixed example of any one kind],—yet
we classify the examples as of one or the other, according
as one or the other happens to be the prominent factor ;
and this is done in accordance with the principle that
appellations are applied to things in accordance with what
happens to be their most prominent element.
[ Example of Suggested Figure subservient to the
expressed meaning]—
Janasthāne bhrāntaṁ kanakamṛgatṛṣṇāndhitadhiyā
Vacho vai-dehīti pratipadamudaśru pralapitam
Kṛtā-laṅkābharturvadanaparipāṭīṣughaṭanā
Mayāptaṁ rāmatvaṁ kuśalavasutā na tvadhigatā
‘I wandered among men’s haunts [in the Janasthāna for-
est], with my mind blinded by a miragic solicitude for gold
[by a desire for the golden deer] ;—at every step, with
tearful eyes, I said the words “ Please give me ” [“ O Vai-
dehī ”) ;—enough attempt was made by me at flattering the
meanly rich people [I directed my arrows at the serried heads
of the king of Laṅkā] ;—thus though I attained the position
of Rāma, yet I did not obtain perfect affluence [the mother of
Kuśa and Lava, Sītā].’
Here the similitude between the speaker and Rāma,
which is suggested through the force of the reverberating