काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 297
इत्यत्र त्रिपुररिपुप्रभावातिशयस्य करुणोऽङ्गम् । तस्य तु
शृङ्गारः । तथापि न करुणे विश्रान्तिरिति तस्याङ्गत्तैव । अथवा
प्राक् यथा कामुक आचरति स्म तथा शराग्निरिति शृङ्गारपोषि-
तेन करुणेन मुख्य एवार्थ उपोद्बल्यते ।
उक्तं हि
‘गुणः कृतात्मसंस्कारः प्रधानं प्रतिपद्यते ।
प्रधानस्योपकारे हि तथा भूयसि वर्तते ॥’ इति ॥
guilty lover of theirs,’—the principal object of delineation
is the superior majesty of Tripura’s enemy (Shiva) ; and to
this is subservient the Pathetic, to which latter the Erotic
is subservient ; and even though in view of the Erotic
being subservient to it, the Pathetic might be regarded as
the predominant factor,—yet it has to be regarded as only
a subordinate factor in view of the fact that the delineation
of the Pathetic does not form the end of the describer.
Or, the sense may be that—‘ the fire of the arrow behaved
in the same manner as a guilty lover has done ’,—wherein
the principal factor (greatness of Shiva) becomes heightened
by the Pathetic as strengthened by the Erotic [so that in
this sense also the Pathetic is not the end arrived at.]
In support of our view, we have the following state-
ment—‘ It is only when it has undergone a purificatory
process that the subordinate factor approaches its Princi-
pal, and it is only thus that it tends to help that principal.’
In this connection it has to be borne in mind that there
can be no ‘incompatibility’ between one Passion and
another,—when we understand Passion to be what it has
been described to be above (under Ch. IV) ; nor can there