काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 287
एवमुक्तस्यौचित्यस्य दिव्यादीनामिव धीरोदात्तादीनामप्यन्यथा-
वर्णनं विपर्ययः । तत्रभवन् भगवन्नित्युत्तमेन न अधमेन मुनिप्रभृतौ
न राजादौ भट्टारक-इति नोत्तमेन राजादौ प्रकृतिविपर्यया-
पत्तेर्वाच्यम् । एवं देशकालवयोजात्यादीनां वेषव्यवहारादिकमु-
चितमेवोपनिवन्धव्यम् ।।
(१३) अनङ्गस्य रसानुपकारकस्य वर्णनम् । यथा कर्पूर-
मञ्जर्य्या नायिकया स्वात्मना च कृतं वसन्तवर्णनमनादृत्य बन्दि-
वर्णितस्य राज्ञा प्रशंसनम् ।।
“ईदृशाः” इति । नायिकापादप्रहारादिना नायककोपादिवर्णनम् ।
above-mentioned proprieties,—it involves the ‘perver-
sion’ (of the characters). Similarly there is ‘perversion
of character’ also in the case of the infringement of such
rules as the following :—(a) such forms of address as
‘tatrabhavān’ and ‘bhagavān’ are to be used only by the
higher, and never by the lower characters,—and these too,
only with reference to sages, and never to kings ;—(b) the
address ‘bhaṭṭāraka’ is to be used, in reference to
kings, only by such characters as do not belong to the
higher order.—Similarly too the dress and actions of the
characters are to be described in due accordance with the
time, place, age, caste and such other circumstances.
[And if this is not done, it involves ‘perversion of
character.’]
(13) An example of ‘what is not germane’,—i. e., not
helpful in the delineation of the Passion concerned,—we
have in the Karpūramañjarī, where the king ignores the
description of the spring by the heroine and also that by
himself, and goes on to praise that by the bard.