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432 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
उत्तरमुत्तरं प्रति यथोत्तरम् । उदाहरणम्--
जितेन्द्रियत्वं विनयस्य कारणं गुणप्रकर्षो विनयादवाप्यते ।
गुणप्रकर्षेण जनोनुरज्यते जनानुरागप्रभवा हि संपदः ॥५२५॥
“हेतुमता सह हेतोरभिधानमभेदतो हेतुः ।”
इति हेत्वलंकारो न लक्षितः । आयुर्घृतमित्यादिरूपो ह्येष
न भूषणतां कदाचिदर्हति वैचित्र्याभावात् ।
अविरलकमलविकासः सकलालिमदश्च कोकिलानन्दः ।
रम्योयमेति संप्रति लोकोत्कण्ठाकरः कालः ॥५२६॥
XXXIX—Kāraṇamālā—The String of Causes.
Where (among a number of things mentioned), each preceding
one appears as the cause of each succeeding one,—it is the String
of Causes.
‘Yathottaram’,—of each of the succeeding.
Example—
‘Control over the senses is the cause of good char-
acter ; excellence of qualities is obtained from good
character ; by the excellence of qualities people become
attached ; and the attachment of the people brings about
prosperity.’
The figure ‘Hetu’, ‘Cause’, defined (by Udbhaṭa)
as consisting in ‘the delineation of the affect as not different
from the cause’,—has not been mentioned here, because
such an identification, being of the nature of statements
like ‘Butter is longevity’, can never be an ornament of
speech, (a Figure of Speech), because there is no charm
in it. In the example also that has been cited of the said
figure,—
‘Aviralakamalavikāsaḥ
Sakalālimadashcha kokilānandaḥ
Ramyoyameti samprati
Lokotkaṇṭhākaraḥ kālaḥ.’