काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 385
अत्र प्रस्थानोद्यतं भवन्तं ज्ञात्वा सहसैव त्वदरयः पलाय्य
गताः इति कारणे प्रस्तुते कार्यमुक्तम् ।
एतत्तस्य मुखात्कियत् कमलिनीपत्रे कणं वारिणो
यन्मुक्तामणिरित्यमंस्त स जडः शृण्वन्यदस्मादपि ।
अङ्गुल्यग्रलघुक्रियाप्रविलयिन्यादीयमाने शनैः
कुत्रोड्डीय गतो ममेत्यनुदिनं निद्राति नान्तःशुचा ॥४४१॥
अत्रास्थाने जडानां ममत्वसंभावना भवतीति सामान्ये
प्रस्तुते विशेषः कथितः ।
सुहृद्वधूबाष्पजलप्रमार्जनं करोति वैरप्रतियातनेन यः ।
स एव पूज्यः स पुमान्स नीतिमान्सुजीवितं तस्य स भाजनं श्रियः
॥४४२॥
What is meant to be described here is the fact that 'as
soon as your enemies came to know of your projected
march against them, they fled away from their houses';
and this fact is the cause of the effect that is described in
the verse.
(c) 'What wonder is it to hear from his mouth that a
certain block-head thought the water-drops upon the
lotus-leaf to be so many pearls ?—Hear something more
than this—when that same person proceeded to pick up
the drops, they disappeared under the light pressure of his
finger-tips, and since then the fool, intensely aggrieved
at the thought of his pearls having flown away, goes with-
out sleep day after day.'
What was meant to be described was the Universal or
general fact that 'foolish people have even misplaced long-
ings and affections,'—while what is actually described is
a particular instance of it.