काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

340 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
इत्यादिः श्लेषस्य चोपमाद्यलंकारविविक्तोस्ति विषय इति ।
द्वयोर्योगे संकर एव । उपपत्तिपर्यालोचने तु उपमाया एवायं
युक्तो विषयः । अन्यथा विषयापहार एव पूर्णोपमायाः स्यात् ।
न च 'अबिन्दुसुन्दरी नित्यं गलल्लावण्यबिन्दुका' इत्यादौ
विरोधप्रतिभोत्पत्तिहेतुः श्लेषः अपि तु श्लेषप्रतिभोत्पत्ति-
Deva tvameva pātālamāśānāṁ tvaṁ nibandhanam
Tvaṁ chāmaramarudbhūmireko lokatrayātmakaḥ
[Which, (a) as addressed to Viṣṇu, means—‘O Viṣṇu,
you are the nether region, the bounds of space, and the
land of the immortals;—thus centralising in yourself all
the three regions’:—and (b) as addressed to the king—
‘O king, you alone are the thorough protector, the ful-
filment of all desires; you are also the recipient of the
wind flowing from the royal chowries; thus though one,
you are threefold’.] ;—
If, however, we admit the presence of both the figures
here, it will have to be regarded as a case of ‘combina-
tion’ of figures. In reality however, on a full review
of all the circumstances, the passage in question (‘the
face is blooming like the lotus’) must be taken as an ins-
tance of Simile; for if it were not so, there could be no
instance of the ‘Complete Simile’ at all.
[As in the case of Simile, so in the case of Contradic-
tion also] some people have held that in certain cases
Pun is indicative of the ‘semblance of Contradiction’
also, e.g., in the passage ‘Abindusundarī nityaṁ galallā-
vaṇyabindukā.’ (‘She is dripping with loveliness, and is
(a) beautiful as the Moon reflected in water (b) beautiful
without drops) the Pun contained in the word ‘abindusun-
darī’ serves to indicate the ‘semblance of contradiction’
(as between ‘without drops’ and ‘dripping’.)