काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 167
यथा
एतन्मन्दविपक्वतिन्दुकफलश्यामोदरापाण्डर-
प्रान्तं हन्त पुलिन्दसुन्दरकरस्पर्शक्षमं लभ्यते ।
तत् पल्लीपतिपुत्रि कुञ्जरकुलं कुम्भाभयाभ्यर्थना-
दीनं त्वामनुनाथते कुचयुगं पत्रावृतं मा कृथाः ॥१४२॥
अत्रानुनाथते इति । ‘सर्पिषो नाथते’ इत्यादावाशिष्येव
नाथतेरात्मनेपदं विहितम् । “आशिषि नाथः” इति । अत्र तु
याचनमर्थः । तस्मात् ‘अनुनाथति स्तनयुगम्’ इति पठनीयम् ।
‘ Etanmanda .............................
Dīnaṁtvāmanunāthate .............
‘ O thou, the daughter of the chief of the settlement !
the herd of elephants, seeking safety from danger (at the
hands of young foresters), is begging you not to cover
your breasts with leaves,—breasts that resemble the half
ripe Tinduka fruit in being dark in the centre and slightly
white all round, and which deserve to be fondled by
Shabara-youths ’.
[The sense is that if the girl does not cover her breasts the hunting
youths would be attracted nearer towards them than towards the
heads of the elephants.]
Here the verb ‘ anunāthate ’ is grammatically incorrect.
In accordance with Pāṇini’s Sūtra 2.3.15, the root ‘ nāth ’
can take the Ātmanepada-ending only when it is used in
the sense of benediction (hope or expectation), as in the ex-
pression ‘ sarpiṣo nāthate ’ (‘ he expects to obtain butter ’);
while in the verse cited, the word ‘ anunāthate ’ has the
sense of begging. Hence the correct reading should have
been ‘ anunāthati stanayugam ’.