काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

286 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
क्रोधं प्रभो संहर संहरेति यावद् गिरः खे मरुतां चरन्ति ।
तावत्स वह्निर्भवनेत्रजन्मा भस्मावशेषं मदनं चकार ॥३२९॥
इत्युक्तवत् भ्रुकुट्यादिविकारवर्जितः क्रोधः सद्यःफलदः
स्वर्गपाताल गगनसमुद्रोल्लङ्घनाद्युत्साहश्च दिव्येष्वेवं ।
अदिव्येषु तु यावदवदानं प्रसिद्धमुचितं वा तावदेवोपनिबन्धव्यम् ।
अधिकं तु निबध्यमानमसत्यप्रतिभासेन 'नायकवद्वर्त्तितव्यं न प्रति-
नायकवत्' इत्युपदेशे न पर्यवस्येत् । दिव्यादिव्येषु उभयथापि ।
Further, it is only in the case of Divine characters that
there can be either such heroism as involved in the under-
taking of a journey to the Heavens or the nether regions,
the jumping over the ocean and so forth, or such anger as
is immediately effective, though not accompanied by
any visible physical signs as the curvature of the brows
and so forth ; such anger, for instance, as is delineated in
the following verse—
‘ “O Lord, withdraw your wrath—do please with-
draw it”,—by the time that these words of the gods go
forth into the skies, the fire emanating from the eye of
Shiva reduced the Love-god to ashes’. In the case of
non-divine or human characters only such activity should
be described as is known from past experience to have
been possible ; if more than this were attributed to a
human character, it would bear the stamp of untruth, and
as such, fail to lead up to exhortation (which is the aim
of poetry) that ‘one should behave like the hero, and not
like his opponent’.—Lastly in the case of humo-divine cha-
racters, both the above kinds of actions may be described.
This being the right course to adopt, if things are
attributed to the Divine and other characters, or to the
Firm-noble and the rest, which are not in keeping with the