काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 455
उदाहरणम्—
मलयजरसविलिप्ततन्वो नवहारलताविभूषिताः
सिततरदन्तपत्र कृतवक्त्ररुचो रुचिरामलांशुकाः ।
शशभृति विततधाम्नि धवलयति धरामविभाव्यतां गताः ।
प्रियवसतिं प्रयान्ति सुखमेव निरस्तभियोभिसारिकाः ।।५५७।।
अत्र प्रस्तुततदन्ययोरन्यूनतानतिरिक्ततया निबद्धं धवलत्वमे-
कात्मताहेतुः । अत एव पृथग्भावेन न तयोरुपलक्षणम् । यथा वा
वेत्रत्वचा तुल्यरुचां वधूनां कर्णाग्रतो गण्डतलागतानि ।
भृङ्गा सहेलं यदि नापतिष्यन् कोवेदयिष्यन्नवचम्पकानि ।।५५८।।
अत्र निमित्तान्तरजनितापि नानात्वप्रतीतिः प्रथमप्रतिपन्नम-
भेदं न व्युदसितुमुत्सहते प्रतीतत्वात्तस्य प्रतीतेश्च बाधायोगात् ।।
their body smeared with sandal-paint, adorned with
new pearl-necklaces, their faces shining through white
paint, and clothed in clean white clothes,—become un-
distinguishable when the moon with its rays has whitened
the Earth, and thus proceed to the house of their lovers
comfortably and fearlessly'.
Here the ground of identification consists in the quality
of whiteness, which is represented as being of the same
degree as—neither more nor less than,—that in the object
described (the women) and the other thing (moonlight);
and for this reason the two objects themselves are not
recognised as distinct.
Another example—
'Who could have recognised the champaka-flowers
hanging from their ears over the cheeks of young women,
with complexion like the cane-bark,—if the black bees
had not gracefully hovered over them?'
Here the cognition of difference, though produced
by other causes (the hovering of the bees), is not able to