काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 213
अमृतममृतं कः संदेहो मधून्यपि नान्यथा
मधुरमधिकं चूतस्यापि प्रसन्नरसं फलम् ।
सकृदपि पुनर्मध्यस्थः सन् रसान्तरविज्जनो
वदतु यदिहान्यत्स्वादु स्यात्प्रियादशनच्छदात् ॥२१५॥
अत्र ‘यदिहान्यत्स्वादु स्यात्’ इत्यश्रव्यम् । यथा वा
जं परिहरिउं तीरइ मणअंपि ण सुन्दरत्तणगुणेण ।
अह णवरँ जस्स दोसो पडिपक्खेहिं पि पडिवण्णो ॥२१६॥
अत्र द्वितीयतृतीयगणौ सकारभकारौ ।
unpleasant to the ear, unmelodious,—(b) it may not have
the last syllable of the foot elongated,—and (c) it may not
be in harmony with the sentiment depicted.
The following are the examples of each of these three.
(a) ‘Amṛtam........vadatu yadihānyat svādu......chhadāt.’
What doubt is that nectar is really nectar; honey also
is not otherwise ; the fruit of the mango also is very
sweet and of pleasing flavour ; yet let any disinterested
person, who is capable of appreciating the various
kinds of flavours; say if anything in this world is sweeter
than the lips of one’s beloved !’
In the fourth line the portion ‘yadihānyat svādu syāt’
(though formally correct) is not pleasant to the ear.
Or again in the following—
‘Jaṁ pari........paḍivaṇṇo’.
‘That by reason of their very fascinating character
affairs of love cannot be avoided is their one defect, which
has been admitted even by their opponents’.
Here the close proximity of the group of three letters
‘ha-ri-uṁ’—which is technically named ‘sa’ (i. e. the group
of three in which, the first two letters are short and the
third long),—to the next group, ‘tī—ra-i’—which is
technically called ‘bha’ (i. e. one long letter followed by