काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

अथ षष्ठ उल्लासः
शब्दार्थचित्रं यत्पूर्वं काव्यद्वयमुदाहृतम् ।
गुणप्राधान्यतस्तत्र स्थितिश्चित्रार्थशब्दयोः ॥ ४८ ॥
न तु शब्दचित्रे अर्थस्याचित्रत्वमर्थचित्रे वा शब्दस्य ।
तथा चोक्तम्
“रूपकादिरलंकारस्तस्यान्यैर्बहुधोदितः ।
न कान्तमपि निर्भूषं विभाति वनिताननम् ॥
रूपकादिमलंकारं बाह्यमाचक्षते परे ।
सुपां तिङां च व्युत्पत्तिं वाचां वाञ्छन्त्यलंकृतिम् ॥
CHAPTER VI
LOWEST KIND OF POETRY
OF FANCIFUL WORD AND FANCIFUL MEANING
In the two kinds of Poetry spoken of above—that of Fan-
ciful Word and that of Fanciful Meaning,—subordinacy and pre-
dominance belong respectively to the fanciful meaning and the
fanciful word.
It is not that in the Poetry of Fanciful Word, there is
no fanciful meaning or vice versa.
[All that the division means is that though in any individual
instance, we may have both fanciful word and fanciful meaning, yet
it is regarded as the Poetry ‘ of Fanciful Word ’ when the fanciful
word (i. e., the Verbal Figure of Speech) is more prominent than the fanci-
ful meaning (i. e., the Ideal Figure of Speech) ; and it is regarded as ‘ of
fanciful meaning ’ when the fanciful meaning is the more prominent
of the two].
[In support of this commixture of both] we have the
following declaration :—
‘(a) Some writers have spoken of Metaphor and the
other (ideal) Figures of Speech as the real ‘ embellishments ’
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