काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 459
उदाहरणम्--
विभिन्नवर्णा गरुडाग्रजेन सूर्यस्य रथ्याः परितः स्फुरन्त्या ।
रत्नैः पुनर्यत्र रुचा रुचं स्वामानिन्यिरे वंशकरीरनीलैः ॥५६३॥
अत्र रवितुरगापेक्षया गरुडाग्रजस्य तदपेक्षया च हरिन्म-
णीनां प्रगुणवर्णता ॥१३७॥
तद्रूपाननुहारश्चेदस्य तत् स्यादतद्गुणः ।
यदि तु तदीयं वर्णं संभवन्त्यामपि योग्यतायाम् इदं न्यूनगुणं
न गृह्णीयात् तदा भवेदतद्गुणो नाम ।
When a thing, on contact with another thing, has
its own character obscured by the superiority of the
brilliant qualities of the other, and acquires a semblance
of that thing, it is the figure Quality-borrowing, ‘Tadguṇa’—
so called because there is borrowing of the quality (‘guṇa’)
of that, (‘tat’), the thing other than the one described.
Example—
‘The sun’s horses, having their colour altered by the
wide-spreading splendour of Aruṇa, (the Sun’s charioteer,
the brother of Garuḍa), were brought back to their own
colour by the gems, green like the bamboo-sprout’.
Here the green gems are described as possessed of
more brilliant qualities than Aruṇa, whose qualities are
more brilliant than those of the Sun’s horses.
LVIII.—Atadguṇa—Non-borrowing of Qualities.
If, however, there is no absorbing by the one from the
other, it is the Non-borrowing of qualities.
In a case, where the thing with inferior qualities
does not absorb the form of the other thing,—even
when such absorption is possible,—then it is the figure
named ‘Non-borrowing of Qualities’.
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