काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

154 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
उच्यते--लक्षणीयस्यार्थस्य नानात्वेपि अनेकार्थशब्दाभि-
धेयवन्नियतत्वमेव । न खलु मुख्येनार्थेनानियतसंबन्धो लक्षयितुं
शक्यते । प्रतीयमानस्तु प्रकरणादिविशेषवशेन नियत संबन्धः
अनियतसंबन्धः संबद्धसंबन्धश्च द्योत्यते ।
न च
“अत्ता एत्थ णिमज्जइ एत्थ अहं दिअहए पलोएहि ।
मा पहिअ रत्तिअन्धअ सेज्जाए मह णिमज्जहिसि ॥१३६॥”
ing), what is this new kind of meaning that is called
‘suggested’?”
Our answer to this is as follows :—
Firstly, even though a word may have several ‘indi-
cated’ meanings, yet their number must be limited, just
like the expressed meaning of a word which has many
meanings.—Secondly, what is ‘indicated’ can never be
such as has no definite connection with the primary
(denoted) meaning, while the ‘suggested’ meaning, under
the influence of ‘context’ and other circumstances, may
have a definite connection (with the expressed meaning),
or it may have only an indefinite (vague) connection with
it, or it may be only indirectly connected (being connected
with something else which is connected with the expressed
meaning).—Thirdly, the primary (expressed) meaning is not
‘barred’ by (incompatibility) in the case of ‘suggestion’,
in such instances as—‘my mother-in-law lies here, and here
myself, mark this well while there is daylight; lest, O
wayfarer, you tumble into our beds at night’;—so that
(the very first condition of ‘Indication’ being wanting)
how can this be regarded as a case of ‘Indication’? —
Fourthly, it has been already shown (under Chapter II)
that in the process of ‘Indication’ also, ‘Suggestion’
comes in as an essential factor.