काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 277
ताला जाअंति गुणा जाला दे सहिअएहिँ घेप्पन्ति ।
रइकिरणानुग्गहिआईं होन्ति कमलाईं कमलाईं ।।३१५।।
जितेन्द्रियत्वं विनयस्य कारणं गुणप्रकर्षो विनयादवाप्यते ।
गुणप्रकर्षेण जनोनुरज्यते जनानुरागप्रभवा हि संपदः ।।३१६।।
पतत्प्रकर्षमपि क्वचिद्गुणः। यथा उदाहृते प्रागप्राप्त-इत्यादौ ।३१७।
(b) ‘Tālā jāaṁti guṇāḥ
Jālā de sahiaehim gheppanti
Raïkiraṇānuggahiāïṁ
Honti kamalāïm Kamalāïm.
‘Excellences appear when they are appreciated by
really appreciative men. It is only when favoured by the
Sun’s rays that lotuses become lotuses’.
[Here the second ‘lotuses’ connotes full-grown fragrance, and
hence having its expressed meaning transformed it is not a defect].
(c) ‘Jitendriyatvaṁ vinayasya kāraṇaṁ
Guṇaprakarṣo vinayādavāpyate
Guṇaprakarṣeṇa janonurajyate
Janānurāgaprabhavā hi saṁpadaḥ’.
Subjugation of the senses leads to humility ; by means
of humility is excellence of qualities attained ; through
excellent qualities, people become attached ; and prosperity
follows from the attachment of the people’.
[The ‘humility’ described in the first sentence as the effect, is
again referred to in the second sentence as the cause, and so on;
and under the circumstances, the use of the same words and expressi-
ons only serves to lend force to the idea that what appears as the
cause in the following sentence is precisely the same as that spoken
of as the effect in the preceding sentence.]
‘Receding Excellence’, is sometimes an excellence ;
as in the verse ‘Prāgaprāpta-&c’. (see above, stanza No. 209).
[Where the softer language adopted in the fourth line is only
right and proper, as it involves the remembrance of the speaker’s
preceptor.]