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158 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
व्यञ्जकभावोप्रतिबन्धेवश्यं न भवतीति व्याप्तत्वेन
नियतधर्मिनिष्ठत्वेन च त्रिरूपाल्लिङ्गाल्लिङ्गिज्ञानमनुमानं यत्
तद्रूपः पर्यवस्यति । तथाहि--
“भम धम्मिअ वीसद्धो सो सुणओ अज्ज मारिओ तेण ।
गोलाणइकच्छकुडंगवासिणा दरिअसीहेण ॥१३८॥”
अत्र गृहे श्वनिवृत्त्या भ्रमणं विहितं गोदावरीतीरे सिंहोप-
लब्धेरभ्रमणमनुमापयति । यत् यत भीरुभ्रमणं तत्तद्भयकारण-
निवृत्त्युपलब्धिपूर्वकं गोदावरीतीरे च सिंहोपलब्धिरिति
व्यापकविरुद्धोपलब्धिः ।
अत्रोच्यते--भीरुरपि गुरोः प्रभोर्वा निदेशेन प्रियानुरागेण
अन्येन चैवंभूतेन हेतुना सत्यपि भयकारणे भ्रमतीत्यनैकान्तिको
our knowledge of the suggested meaning comes to be purely
inferential in character. For instance, in the following
verse—‘ My good man, roam about as you choose ; the
dog has been killed by the lion living in the cave of the
banks of the Godāvarī’,—what is advised is the safety
of roaming about due to the removal of the dog from the
house, and this leads to the inference of the danger involved
in wandering on the banks of the Godāvarī, by reason of
the presence of the lion. The ‘roaming of a coward’
is invariably concomitant with the certainty of ‘the ab-
sence of all cause of fear’;—on the banks of the Godā-
varī ‘the cause of fear’ is present ; and so this ‘presence’
is the contrary of the aforesaid ‘absence’ with which the
said roaming is invariably concomitant. Hence the said
‘presence’ leads to the deduction of what is contrary to the
aforesaid ‘roaming’, i. e. the impropriety of roaming”.
Our answer to the above is as follows :—(a) As a matter
of fact, even a coward is found going to places where