काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

274 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
मा मा मानद माति मामलमिति क्षामाक्षरोल्लापिनी
सुप्ता किं नु मृता नु किं मनसि मे लीना विलीना नु किम् ॥३१०॥
क्वचिन्न गुणो न दोषः । यथा
तिष्ठेत्कोपवशात्प्रभावपिहिता दीर्घं न सा कुप्यति
स्वर्गायोत्पतिता भवेन्मयि पुनर्भावार्द्रमस्या मनः ।
तां हर्तुं विबुधद्विषोपि न च मे शक्ताः पुरोवर्तिनीं
सा चात्यन्तमगोचरं नयनयोर्यातेति कोयं विधिः ॥३११॥
Mā mā mānada māti māmalamiti kṣāmākṣarollāpinī
Suptā kim nu mṛtā nu kim manasi me līnā vilīnā nu kim’.
Her breasts dwarfed by firm embrace, and the body
thrilling all over, her beautiful clothing slipping away
from her waist, under the intensity of deep love, she uttered
broken words—“Do not ! O ! do not ! my love ! not
too much ! Ah me ! Enough !”—After which I know
not if she went to sleep or was dead, or having entered into
my heart, became assimilated therewith’.
[Here the broken utterance serve to intensify the feeling depicted.]
In certain cases the same defect of ‘Verbal Deficiency’
is neither a defect nor an excellence ; e.g., in the follow-
ing—
‘Tiṣṭhet kopavashāt prabhāvapihitā dīrghaṁ na sā kupyati
Svargāyotpatitā bhavenmayi punarbhāvārdramasyā manaḥ
Tāṁ hartuṁ vibudhaviṣopi na cha me shaktāḥ purovartinīṁ
Sā chātyantamagocharam nayanayoryāteti koyam vidhiḥ.’
‘May she be lying concealed ?—She angers not for
long ! Might she have flown to the heavens ?—Her
heart bore deep affection towards me. Even the demons
could not wrench her away from before me.—And yet
she has passed completely beyond the range of my vision.
What a process of fate !’