काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

330 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
एवं वैचित्र्यसहस्रैः स्थितमन्यदुन्नेयम् ॥८३॥
वाच्यभेदेन भिन्ना यद् युगपद्भाषणस्पृशः ।
श्लिष्यन्ति शब्दाः श्लेषोसावक्षरादिभिरष्टधा ॥ ८४ ॥
'अर्थभेदेन शब्दभेद': इति दर्शने 'काव्यमार्गे स्वरो न
गण्यते' इति च नये वाच्यभेदेन भिन्ना अपि शब्दा यत् युग-
पदुच्चारणेन श्लिष्यन्ति भिन्नं स्वरूपमपह्नुवते स श्लेषः । स
च वर्णपदलिङ्गभाषाप्रकृतिप्रत्ययविभक्तिवचनानां भेदादष्टधा ।
bees, discontinuing the destruction of the lotus and ad-
orned with blossoming, tawny and wide-expanding mango-
groves.'
In the above manner, we may deduce the examples
of endless varieties of Chime. 83.
(IV) When words that are different by reason of
the difference in their denotations coalesce (become identified)
through the sameness of their pronunciation, it is a case of
Coalescence or Pun; and through Letter and other factors, it
is of eight kinds. 84.
There is the theory that words having different
meanings must be regarded as different,—and also
that in poetry, accents do not count ; and in accordance
with the former theory, even though two words may be
the same in their verbal form, yet they are regarded
as different and in accordance with the latter, when
these words (though differently accented, by reason of
their meanings) come to be pronounced in exactly the
same manner, they are regarded as ‘coalescing’, i.e.,
as having their differences undiscernible ;—and when
this happens, it is a case of Coalescence, Pun.
This Pun is of eight kinds, as based upon the eight
different factors of (1) letters, (2) words, (3) gender, (4)