काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

:CHAPTER X 487
दिवाकराद्रक्षति यो गुहासु लीनं दिवा भीतमिवान्धकारम् ।
क्षुद्रेऽपि नूनं शरणं प्रपन्ने ममत्वमुच्चैः शिरसामतीव ॥६००॥
अत्राचेतनस्य तमसो दिवाकरात्त्रास एव न संभवतीति
कुत एव तत्प्रयोजितमद्रिणा परित्राणम् । संभावितेन तु रूपेण
प्रतिभासमानस्यास्य न काचिदनुपपत्तिरवतरतीति व्यर्थ एव
तत्समर्थनायां यत्नः ।
साधारणविशेषणवशादेव समासोक्तिरनुक्तमपि उपमान-
विशेषं प्रकाशयतीति तस्यात्र पुनरुपादाने प्रयोजनाभावात् अनु-
पादेयत्वं यत् तत् अपुष्टार्थत्वं पुनरुक्तं वा दोषः । यथा
‘Who, during the day, protects, from the sun, Dark-
ness, which, is as it were, afraid and hidden among the
caves : Persons with magnanimity (high heads) sympathise
even with an insignificant thing that seeks shelter with
them’.
Here, in the first place, it is not possible for Darkness,
which is an insentient thing, to have any fear from the
sun; wherefore then could there be any protection by the
mountain, incited by that fear? And yet there is no
incongruity in the imaginary semblance of fear (which
is all that the Poetic Fancy has set forth); so that the attempt
(made in the second line) to justify the preceding state-
ment (by means of ‘Transition’) is entirely unnecessary.
Another defect attributed to the figure of Modal
Metaphor is ‘anupādeyatva’, ‘unmentionability’, which
has been found in cases where,—the particular object
compared to, which is not expressly stated, is indicated
by the figure (Modal Metaphor), through the force of
common epithets,—yet the said object is mentioned again,
for which really there is no use at all. This however,