काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

186 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
अत्र सायकादयः शब्दाः खड्गाब्धिभूचन्द्रयशःपर्यायाः शराद्यर्थतया
प्रसिद्धाः ।।
कुविन्दस्त्वं तावत्पटयसि गुणग्राममभितो
यशो गायन्त्येते दिशि दिशि च नग्नास्तव विभो ।
शरज्ज्योत्स्नागौरस्फुटविकटसर्वाङ्गसुभगा
तथापि त्वत्कीर्तिर्भ्रमति विगताच्छादनमिह ॥१७३॥
अत्र कुविन्दादिशब्दोऽर्थान्तरं प्रतिपादयन्नुपश्लोक्यमानस्य
तिरस्कारं व्यनक्तीत्यनुचितार्थः ।
tively, of sword, ocean, earth, moon, and fame,—while they
are better known as having the sense of arrow, love-god,
forgiveness, lotus and verse, respectively [and hence the desired
signification of all these words is ‘suppressed’].
(4) [‘Improper signification’]
Kuvindastvaṁ tāvat paṭayasi guṇagrāmamabhito
Yasho gāyantyete dishi dishi cha nagnāstava vibho
Sharajjyotsnāgaurasphuṭavikaṭasarvāṅgasubhagā
Tathāpi tvatkīrtirbhramati vigatāchchhādanamiha’.
‘As Lord of the Earth, you are spreading on all sides
hosts of good qualities ; these bards are singing your fame
on all sides ; and yet thy renown, beautiful and resplen-
dent as the autumnal moon, wanders about unfurled.’
Here there is an ‘improper signification,’ inasmuch
as some of the words—e. g. ‘kuvinda’ [‘paṭayasi’, ‘nagna’,
‘yasha’] have a second meaning which indicates disrespect
towards the person described.
[‘Kuvinda’ means a weaver, ‘guṇam paṭayasi’ means ‘weave yarn,
‘nagna’ means naked, ‘yashaḥ is capable of being read or construed as
‘ayaśaḥ,’ so that the person addressed comes to be described as a
weaver weaving cloth and so forth.]