काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

320- KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
छेकवृत्तिगतो द्विधा ।।
छेकाः विदग्धाः । वृत्तिर्नियतवर्णगतो रसविषयो व्यापारः ।
गत इति छेकानुप्रासो वृत्यनुप्रासश्च ।।
किं तयोः स्वरूपम् इत्याह—
सोनेकस्य सकृत्पूर्वः ।।
अनेकस्य अर्थात् व्यञ्जनस्य सकृदेकवारं सादृश्यं छेकानुप्रासः ।
उदाहरणम्
ततोरुणपरिस्पन्दमन्दीकृतवपुः शशी ।
दध्रे कामपरिक्षामकामिनीगण्डपाण्डुताम् ।।३५५।।
It is of two kinds,—as pertaining to (a) chheka (experts) and (b)
vṛtti (diction).
‘Chheka’—Experts ; ‘vṛtti’—that function of letters
which affects the delineation of Passion ;—‘pertaining to’
these,—i.e., the two kinds of Alliteration are (a) ‘chhekānu-
prāsa’ and (b) Vṛttyanuprāsa.’
[These are merely fanciful names, as is clear from the definitions
that follow, according to which the two kinds may be called (a)
‘Isolated’ and (b) ‘Complex’ Alliteration.]
The author states the characteristics of these two kinds
of Alliteration.—
The former is the single repetition of several.
When there is a single repetition of ‘several’—consona-
nts, it is ‘Chhekānuprāsa’, ‘Isolated Alliteration.’ Example—
‘Tato’ ruṇaparispandamandīkṛtavapuḥ shashī
Dadhre kāmaparikṣāmakāminīgaṇḍapāṇḍutām’.
‘The Moon, having his body eclipsed by the advent
of the Sun, bore the paleness of the cheek of a woman
emaciated by the pangs of love.’
[Here we have ‘single repetition of the consonants (a) ‘n-d’ and
(b) ‘ṇ-ḍ’]