काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 199
अत्र यद्यदित्युक्त्वा तन्मे इत्युक्तम्। उच्यते--यद्यदिति येन
केनचिद्रूपेण स्थितं सर्वात्मकं वस्वाक्षिप्तं तथाभूतमेव तच्छब्देन
परामृश्यते।
यथा वा
किं लोभेन विलङ्घितः स भरतो येनतदेवं कृतं
मात्रा स्त्रीलघुतां गता किमथ वा मातैव मे मध्यमा।
मिथ्यैतन्मम चिन्तितं द्वितयमप्यार्यानुजोसौ गुरु-
र्माता तातकलत्रमित्यनुचितं मन्ये विधात्रा कृतम् ।।१९५।।
the receptacle of the most auspicious effulgence ! Be
pleased to ordain for me the highest prosperity ! O Lord
of the world ! destroy whatever sin there is in me,—I
bow down to thee ! O Blessed Lord ! bestow upon me
for my welfare, everything that is good !'
Our answer to this is that 'yad—yat' stands for any-
thing and everything that exists, that is the entire world
regarded as a single entity, and it is this single entity that
is referred to in the subsequent clause by the pronoun
'tat' [so that there is perfect co-ordination].
[Finding that the example of the defect cited by him above has
given rise to difficulties, the author cites another example of the
defect, whereby the predicative factor is not discriminated.]
Kiṁ lobhena...āryānujosau......tātakalatram...kṛtam'.
‘ Was Bharata beset with greed that he got this done
through his mother ? Or , did my second mother herself
succumb to the meanness common among women ?—
Both these ideas of mine are wrong ; as he (Bharata) is
the younger brother of my noble brother, and she, my
revered mother, is my father’s wife. So I think that this
improper deed is the work of Providence itself.’
Here stress is meant to be laid upon the terms ‘ ārya ’
and ‘ tāta ’ [the idea being that ‘ it is of my noble brother