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448 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
पूर्वं पूर्वं प्रति यथोत्तरस्य वस्तुनो वीप्सया विशेषणभावेन
यत् स्थापनं निषेधो वा संभवति सा द्विधा बुधैरेकावली भण्यते ।
क्रमेणोदाहरणम्--
पुराणि यस्यां सवराङ्गनानि वराङ्गना रूपपुरस्कृताङ्ग्यः ।
रूपं समुन्मीलितसद्विलासमस्त्रं विलासः कुसुमायुधस्य ।।५४८।।
न तज्जलं यन्न सुचारुपङ्कजं
नपङ्कजं तद् यदलीनषट्पदम् ।
च षट्पदोऽसौ कलगुञ्जितो न यो
न गुञ्जितं तन्न जहार यन्मनः ।।५४९।।
LI—Ekāvalī—Necklace.
Where [among a number of things] the succeeding thing
is either (a) affirmed or (b) denied, as qualifying
the preceding things,—it is the Necklace, which is of
two kinds. 131
When among a number of things, when one
succeeding thing after another, is found to be either
(a) affirmed or denied, as belonging to the preceding,—
it is the figure which the learned call 'Necklace'; and
this is of two kinds, of which the following are the res-
pective examples.
(a) [Where there is affirmation.]—
'The city there contained excellent women ; the
excellent women were adorned with beauty ; their beauty
was teeming with lasciviousness : and lasciviousness is
the weapon of the Love-god'.
(b) [Where there is denial.]—
'It is not water which does not contain beautiful
lotuses ; it is not lotus which does not contain the hidden
black bee ; it is not a black bee which hums not sweetly ;