काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 269
यस्याहुः शशिमच्छिरोहर इति स्तुत्यं च नामामराः
पायात्स स्वयमन्धकक्षयकरस्त्वां सर्वदोमाधवः ॥३०२॥
अत्र माधवपक्षे शशिमदन्धकक्षयशब्दावप्रयुक्तनिहतार्थौ ॥
अश्लीलं क्वचिद्गुणः । यथा सुरतारम्भगोष्ठ्याम् “द्व्यर्थैः
पदैः पिशुनयेच्च रहस्यवस्तु” इति कामशास्त्रस्थितौ
Yasyāhuḥ shashimachchhirohara iti stutyaṁ cha nāmāmarāḥ
Pāyāt sa svayamandhakakṣayakarastvāṁ sarvadomādhavaḥ.
(A) (Applied to Kṛṣṇa)—‘May the all-giving husband
of Lakṣmī protect you !—He who has destroyed the de-
mon Shakaṭa, and himself unborn, conquered Balī, assumed
a female form, subdued the serpent Kālīya ; in whom all
sound becomes merged, who upheld the mountain and the
earth, whose praiseworthy name the gods declare to be
‘the chopper of the head of Rāhu’, and who established
the residence of the Andhaka race.’
(B) (Applied to Shiva)—‘May the husband of Umā
ever protect you !,—He, the destroyer of the mind-born
Love-god, who turned into an arrow the body of Viṣṇu
(the subduer of Balī), who has large serpents as his necklets
and bangles, bears the Gaṅgā, and the moon also on his
forehead, whose praiseworthy name declared by the gods
is ‘Hara’, and who destroyed the demon Andhaka’.
In this verse the terms ‘shashimat’ and ‘andhakaṣaya’
are ‘unconventional’, when applied to Kṛṣṇa (but are not
regarded as defective).
The ‘Indecorous’ is an excellence in certain cases ;
for instance, in conversations leading upto sexual dalliance ;
in accordance with the dictum of the Science of Erotics
that ‘secret matters are to be concealed by means of words
with double meanings’;—e. g., in the following verse—