काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER IX 319
काक्वा यथा
गुरुजनपरतन्त्रतया दूरतरं देशमुद्यतो गन्तुम् ।
अलिकुलकोकिलललिते नैष्यति सखि सुरभिसमयेऽसौ ॥३५४॥७८॥
वर्णसाम्यमनुप्रासः ॥
स्वरवैसादृश्येपि व्यञ्जनसदृशत्वं वर्णसाम्यम् । रसाद्यनुगतः
प्रकृष्टो न्यासोनुप्रासः ॥
is based upon the word ‘dāruṇā’, used by the first speaker
in the sense of ‘cruel’, being taken by the other in the
sense of ‘of wood’.]
The following is an example of Equivoque based on
Intonation.
‘Gurujanaparatantratayā dūrataraṁ deshamudyato gantum
Alikulakokilalalite naiṣyati sakhi surabhisamayesau’.
‘Being obedient to his elders, he is prepared to go
to a far remote country; and O friend! will he not come
during the fragrant season (of spring), which is beautified
by the presence of swarms of black bees and cuckoos?’
[To this the friend is supposed to reply ‘will he not come?’
this reply in this sense being obtained by giving to the
word ‘naiṣyati’, ‘will not come’, the intonation of a ques-
tion; so that the word used by the first speaker in the
former sense is taken by the second in the latter sense,
which carries the further meaning ‘he is sure to come.’]
Alliteration (Anuprāsa) consists in the similarity of letters.
The ‘similarity of letters’ meant here is the sameness
of the consonants, even though the vowels may be different.
The figure is called ‘Anuprāsa’, because it consists in
such ‘prāsa’—prakṛṣṭa nyāsa, i.e., excellent allocation (of
letters)—as is ‘anu’—anugata, favourable, to the delineation
of Passion and other things.