काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

168 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
(३) ‘अप्रयुक्तं तथा आम्नातमपि कविभिर्नादृतम् ।
यथा
यथायं दारुणाचारः सर्वदैव विभाव्यते ।
तथा मन्ये दैवतोस्य पिशाचो राक्षसोथ वा ॥१४३॥
अत्र दैवतशब्दो “दैवतानि पुंसि वा” इति पुंस्याम्नातोपि न
केनचित्प्रयुज्यते ॥
(४) ‘असमर्थं’ यत्तदर्थं पठ्यते न च तत्रास्य शक्तिः ।
यथा
तीर्थान्तरेषु स्नानेन समुपार्जितसत्कृतिः ।
सुरस्रोतस्विनीमेष हन्ति संप्रति सादरम् ॥१४४॥
अत्र हन्तीति गमनार्थम् ॥
(3) The following is an example of the ‘unconven-
tional’,—i. e. a word, which though quite correct formally,
is one that has not been admitted by poets into usage—
‘yathāyaṁ...........................daivatosya’
‘Inasmuch as this person is always cruel in his actions,
it seems as if his guiding spirit were a ghost or a demon’.
Though the form ‘daivataḥ’ is formally correct,—it
being mentioned in the lexicons as belonging both to the
masculine and neuter genders—yet as a matter of fact,
it has never been used in its masculine form.
(4) The following is an example of the word incapable
of giving sense’, i. e. one used in a sense to which its
denotative potency does not extend.
‘Tīrthāntareṣu......hanti samprati sādaram’
‘After having acquired merit from bathing in other
sacred places, he now reverentially repairs to the Celestial
River.’
Here the verb ‘hanti’ has been used in the sense of
going (which it is incapable of denoting).
[In the Dhātupāṭha the root han is mentioned to have the mean-
ings “to kill” and “to go”.]