काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 233
अत्र 'गते' इति प्रकान्ते 'याता' इति प्रकृतेः ।
'गता निशापि' इति तु युक्तम् ।
ननु 'नैकं पदं द्विः प्रयोज्यं प्रायेण' इत्यन्यत्र कथितपदं दुष्ट-
मिति चेहैवोक्तम् । तत्कथमेकस्य पदस्य द्विःप्रयोगः । उच्यते ।
उद्देश्यप्रतिनिद्देश्यव्यतिरिक्तो विषय एकपदप्रयोगनिषेधस्य ।
तद्धति विषये प्रत्युत तस्यैव पदस्य सर्वनाम्नो वा प्रयोगं विना
दोषः । तथाहि—
‘ Under the ordination of destiny, the Lord of Night
having gone to set, it is well that the Night also has de-
parted ; for noble women, there is no better condition
and more in keeping with the state of things than this’.
The statement, having opened with ‘gata’ (gone),
ends with ‘yāta’ (departed) ; thus violating the unifor-
mity of the verbal root. The right reading would have
been ‘gatā niśāpi’,
[which would have been more appropriate in describing the
exact following by the wife in the foot-steps of her lord.]
Objection :—“ In another work (Vāmana’s sūtras)
it has been laid down that no word should be repeated twice,
and in this work itself the Repetition of words has been
described as a Defect ; how then should it be regarded
advisable to repeat the same word gatā’) as suggested ?”
Our answer is as follows :—The prohibition of the
repeating of a word is meant to apply to cases other than
the one where what is spoken of subsequently is meant to
be precisely the same that has been mentioned previously ;
[as in the case in question the going of the night is meant
to be precisely the same as the going of the moon ] where,
on the other hand, such identity is meant, it would be a
positive defect if the same noun were not repeated, either