काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 237
लघुतां भजते निरायतौर्लघुतावान्न पदं नृपश्रियः ॥ इति युक्तम् ।
काचित्कीर्णा रजोभिर्दिवमनुविदधौ मन्दवक्त्रेन्दुलक्ष्मी-
रश्रीकाः काश्चिदन्तर्दिश इव दधिरे दाहमुद्भ्रान्तसत्त्वाः ।
भ्रमुर्वात्या इवान्याः प्रतिपदमपरा भूमिवत्कम्पमानाः
प्रस्थाने पार्थिवानामशिवमिवि पुरो भावि नार्यः शशंसुः ॥ २४९॥
(b) ‘Laghutāṁ bhajate nirāyatiḥ’
(c) ‘Laghutāvanna padannṛpaśriyaḥ’ (fourth line)
In the following we have an example of the ‘Violation
of the Uniformity’ of number.
‘Kāchit kīrṇā rajobhirdivamanuvidadhau mandavaktrendu-
lakṣmīr-
Ashrīkāḥ kāśchidantardisha iva dadhire dāhamudbhrān-
tasattvāḥ
Bhremurvātyā ivānyāḥ pratipadamaparāḥ bhūmivat kam-
pamānāḥ
Prasthāne pārthivānāmashivamiti puro bhāvi nāryaḥ
shashaṁsuḥ.’
‘At the time of the king’s departure the women fore-
boded impending calamity;—while one was beset with
menstrual impurity and had her moon-like face bedimmed,
thereby resembling the atmosphere (dusty and with a dull
moon, a sign of coming trouble),—others, devoid of all
splendour and their minds unsteady under the fire of the
pangs of separation, resembled the quarters (dull and
amazing all animals by their red glare, another inauspicious
sign);—others again flitted about like storms (an inauspici-
ous sign), and another shook like the earth (earth-quake
being a premonition of impending disaster).’
[In the first we have the noun in the Singular number, while
throughout the following sentences of the verse, the Plural number
is used, and in the last sentence again we find the Singular number.]