काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 267
रक्ताशोक कृशोदरी क्व नु गता त्यक्त्वानुरक्तं जनं
नो दृष्टेति मुधैव चालयसि किं वातावधूतं शिरः ।
उत्कण्ठाघटमानषट्पदघटासंघट्टदष्टच्छद-
स्तत्पादाहतिमन्तरेण भवतः पुष्पोद्गमोयं कुतः ॥३००॥
अत्र शिरोधूननेन कुपितस्य वचसि ॥
क्वचिन्नीरसे न गुणो न दोषः । यथा
‘Raktāśoka kṛśodarī kva nu gatā
tyaktvānuraktaṁjanam
No dṛṣṭeti mudhaiva chālayasi kiṁ
vātāvadhūtaṁ śiraḥ
Utkaṇṭhāghaṭamānaṣaṭpadaghaṭāsaṅghaṭṭa-
daṣṭachchhadas-
Tatpādāhatimantareṇa bhavataḥ puṣpod-
gamoyaṅkutaḥ.’
‘O red Ashoka tree, whereto has the slender-waisted
one gone, leaving her lover ?—Why do you dishonestly
shake your wind-blown head as if denying your having
seen her ?—Without the touch of her feet, whence could
there appear in you these blossoms, which have their petals
bitten off by the swarms of black bees hovering round in
their anxiety (to get at the flowers)’.
The latter half of the verse is spoken by the speaker
on an occasion when he has become enraged by the dis-
honest behaviour of the tree shaking its head, [and hence
the harshness of the words used is an excellence].
-- In some cases, where there is no Passion depicted,
Harshness is neither a defect nor an excellence. For
example—