काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VIII 315
अत्र हि न वाच्यं क्रोधादिव्यञ्जकम् । अभिनेयार्थं च
च काव्यमिति तत्प्रतिकूला उद्धता रचनदयः । वक्ता चात्र
भीमसेनः ॥
क्वचिद्वक्तृप्रबन्धानपेक्षया वाच्यौचित्यादेव रचनादयः ॥
यथा
प्रौढच्छेदानुरूपोच्छलनरयभवत्सैंहिकेयोपघात-
त्रासाकृष्टश्वतिर्यग्वलितरविरथेनारुणेनेक्ष्यमाणम् ।
कुर्वत् काकुत्स्थवीर्यस्तुतिमिव मरुतां कन्धरारन्ध्रभाजां
झांकारैर्भीममेतन्निपतति वियतः कुम्भकर्णोत्तमाङ्गम् ॥ ३५१॥
clouds at the time of universal dissolution, being as deep
as the rumbling of the Mandara mountain tossed about
and having its caves overflowing with the water of the sea
thrown about, as it were, by the churning rod.’
Here the subject described , is not one suggestive of
anger, or any such violent emotion ; the form of the work
also is one to be staged ; so that the bombastic diction is
not compatible with either of these two conditions ; and yet,
since the speaker is Bhīmasena (well-known as a ‘ Furious ’
character) [the bombastic diction is quite suitable.]
In other cases the diction and other things are altered
in accordance with the character of the subject portrayed,
irrespective of the speaker or the form. For instance, in the
following :—
‘ Prauḍhachchhedānurūpochchhalanarayabhavatsaiṁhikeyopaghāta-
Trāsākṛṣṭāśvatiryagvalitaravirathenāruṇenekṣyamāṇam
Kurvat kākutsthavīryastutimiva marutāṁ kandharārandhrabhājāṁ
Bhāṅkārairbhīmametannipatati viyataḥ kumbhakarṇottamāṅgam.’
‘Here falls from the sky the head of Kumbhakarṇa,
terrible on account of the curious humming of winds
contained in the holes in his shoulders, and hence appearing
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