काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VIII 309
एवं न दश शब्दगुणाः ॥
‘पदार्थे वाक्यरचनं वाक्यार्थे च पदाभिधा ।
प्रौढिर्व्याससमासौ च साभिप्रायत्वमस्य च ॥’
इति या प्रौढिः ओज इत्युक्तं तद् वैचित्र्यमात्रम् न गुणः ।
तदभावेपि काव्यव्यवहारप्रवृत्तेः । अपुष्टार्थत्वाधिकपदत्वानवी-
कृतत्वामङ्गल रूपाश्लील ग्राम्याणां निराकरणेन च साभि-
प्रायत्वरूपमोजः अर्थवैमल्यात्मा प्रसादः उक्तवैचित्र्यरूपं
माधुर्यम् अपारुष्यरूपं सौकुमार्यम् अग्राम्यत्वरूपा उदारता च
Thus it follows that the number of excellences pertain-
ing to words is not ten.
As regards those same Excellences as pertaining to
the meaning, (1) the first (mentioned by Vāmana) is
Prauḍhi, Boldness, also called (the first kind of ‘ojas’
‘strength’), which has been defined as consisting (a) in
the use of a sentence for the expressing of what can
be expressed by a single word, (b) in using a single word
for the expressing of what would be expressed by a sen-
tence, (c) in expansion, (d) in brevity and (e) in the effective-
ness of epithets. But this is merely a flourish of style,
and not an ‘excellence’; since expressions are regarded
as ‘poetical’ even in the absence of the said (five kinds of)
Boldness.—(1a) the second kind of ‘ojas’, ‘strength’,
which has been defined as consisting in significance (a preg-
nancy of meaning), is only the negation of the defect of
Irrelevancy;—(2) ‘Prasāda’, consisting in clearness of
meaning, is the negation of the defect of ‘redundancy’;
—(3) ‘Mādhurya’, consisting of fanciful expression, is the
negation of the defect of ‘monotony’;—(4) Saukumārya,
consisting of freedom from ruggedness, is the negation
of the defect of ‘Indecorous Inauspiciousness’;—(5)
Udāratā, consisting in the absence of vulgarity, is the