काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 479
पातालमिव ते नाभिः स्तनौ क्षितिधरोपमौ ।
वेणीदण्डः पुनरयं कालिन्दीपातसंनिभः ॥५८७॥ .
अत्र चण्डालादिभिरुपमानः प्रस्तुतोऽर्थोऽत्यर्थमेव कदर्धित
इत्यनुचितार्थता ॥
स मुनिर्लाञ्छितो मौञ्ज्या कृष्णाजिनपटं वहन् ।
व्यराजन्नीलजीमूतभागाश्लिष्ट इवांशुमान् ॥५८८॥
अत्रोपमानस्य मौञ्जीस्थानीयस्तडिल्लक्षणो धर्मः केनापि
पदेन न प्रतिपादित इति हीनपदत्वम् ॥
स पीतवासाः प्रगृहीतशार्ङ्गं मनोज्ञभीमं वपुराप कृष्णः ।
शतह्रदेन्द्रायुधवान्निशायां संसृज्यमानः शशिनेव मेघः ॥५८९॥
अत्रोपमेयस्य शङ्खादेरनिर्देशे शशिनो ग्रहणमतिरिच्यते
इत्यधिकपदत्वम् ॥
(4) [ Superiority in degree ]—
‘Thy navel is like the nether regions, thy breasts are like
mountains and thy looks like the stream of the Yamunā’.
In all these instances, the objects described, by being
compared to the things mentioned, have been very much
depreciated; and this involves the defect of ‘impropriety
of meaning’ (already described in Chap. VII.)
In the passage—‘The sage, wearing the girdle and the
skin of the antelope, appeared like the sun interspersed
among masses of blue clouds’,—it is found that in connec-
tion with the object compared to (the Sun), nothing (like the
lightning, for instance) has been mentioned as correspond-
ing to the ‘girdle’ of the object compared; and this is only
a ‘deficiency of words’.
In the passage—‘Kṛṣṇa, dressed in yellow cloth and
holding his bow assumed a body at once beautiful
and terrible,—like the nocturnal cloud accompanied by
lightning and the rainbow and the Moon’,—in the absence