काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 367
लिम्पतीव तमोऽङ्गानि वर्षतीवाञ्जनं नभः ।
असत्पुरुषसेवेव दृष्टिविफलतां गता ॥४१७॥
इत्यादौ व्यापनादि लेपनादिरूपतया संभावितम् ॥
ससंदेहस्तु भेदोक्तौ तदनुक्तौ च संशयः ॥ ९२ ॥
भेदोक्तौ यथा
अयं मार्तण्डः किं स खलु तुरगैः सप्तभिरितः
कृशानुः किं सर्वाः प्रसरति दिशो नैष नियतम् ।
कृतान्तः किं साक्षान्महिषवहनोसाविति चिरं
समालोक्याजौ त्वां विदधति विकल्पान् प्रतिभटाः ॥४१८॥
In the following verse—
‘Limpatīva tamoṅgāni varṣatīvāñjanaṁ nabhaḥ
Asatpuruṣaseveva dṛṣṭirviphalatāṁ gatā’
‘Darkness besmears the limbs as it were ; the sky is,
as it were, showering soot ; and vision has become as
useless as the service of a wicked master’ ;—what is
done is that the pervading (of darkness) has been imagined
to be besmearing.
[And the spreading of darkness has been imagined to be the showering
of soot : so that this is an instance of Poetical Fancy, and not Simile,
as some people have taken it to be, having been misled to this
view by the presence of the particle ‘iva’]
V—Sasandeha—Doubtful.
The statement of a doubt constitutes the Doubtful,—the
distinction being asserted or not asserted. 92.
For example, we have the ‘difference stated’, in the
following verse—
‘Is this the sun ?—But the sun is carried by seven
horses. Is he the Fire ?—Surely, Fire never flames on
all sides. Is he the Death-god ?—But the Death-god
has the buffalo for his conveyance. Thus, O King, on