काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

266 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
वाच्यवशाद्यथा
मातङ्गाः किमु वल्गितैः किमफलैराडम्बरैर्जम्बुकाः
सारङ्गा महिषा मदं व्रजथ किं शून्येषु शरा न के ।
कोपाटोपसमुद्भटोत्कटसटाकोटेरिभारेः पुरः
सिन्धुध्वानिनि हुङ्कृते स्फुरति यत् तद्गर्जितं गर्जितम् ॥२९९॥
अत्र सिंहे वाच्ये परुषाः शब्दाः ॥
प्रकरणवशाद्यथा
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breasts bespattered with the muddy blood that she has
drunk and vomited.’
[The passion of disgust being suggested here, the harshness of the
words becomes a source of excellence.]
(d). The following is an example where the defect (of
Harshness) becomes an excellence by virtue of the character
of the thing described.—
‘Mātaṅgāḥ kimu valgitaiḥ kimaphalairāḍambarairjambukāḥ
Sāraṅgā mahiṣā madam vrajata kim shūnyeṣu shūrā na ke
Kopāṭopasamudbhaṭotkaṭasaṭākoṭeribhāreḥ puraḥ
Sindhudhvānini huṅkṛte sphurati yat tad garjitam garjitam’
‘O elephants, what of your cries ! O jackals, what of
these useless struttings ! O deer and buffaloes, wherefore
are you so proud ? Who is not brave, in solitude ?
Roaring would be real roaring, only in the presence of the
ocean-like rumble of the lion with his name ruffled in
anger.’
In the latter half of this verse, the lion being the
thing described, the harsh-sounding words are a source
of excellence.
(e) The following is an example of a defect becoming
an excellence, by virtue of the context or occasion.