काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER I 5
यः कौमारहरः स एव हि वरस्ता एव चैत्रक्षपास्-
ते चोन्मीलितमालतीसुरभयः प्रौढाः कदम्बानिलाः ।
सा चैवास्मि तथापि तत्र सुरतव्यापारलीलाविधौ
रेवारोधसि वेतसीतरुतले चेतः समुत्कण्ठते ॥ १ ॥
अत्र स्फुटो न कश्चिदलंकारः। रसस्य च प्राधान्यान्नालंकारता।
तद्भेदान् क्रमेणाह—
इदमुत्तममतिशयिनि व्यङ्ग्ये वाच्याद्ध्वनिर्बुधैः कथितः ॥४॥
The faults (grammatical and other mistakes), merits
(mādhurya, etc.) and ornaments of speech (Upamā, etc.)
will be described later on (chapters VII, VIII, IX and X)
The words 'at times' mean that, while generally,
poetry has some figure or other, yet, if in some case
there be no figure directly expressed, that omission
alone need not make the composition unpoetical. For
instance—
“ My husband is the same as when from me he
stole my virginity ; these lovely Chaitra-nights
are the same ; this breeze, too, comes, as of old
from the Kadamba grove, laden with the fragrance
of Mālatī blooms ; and I, too, am the same.
Yet still my heart longs for Love’s dalliances
amidst the citron-bowers of Revā’s banks.”
In this verse, there is no explicit figure of speech
The Rasa (erotic) being the primary element, there cannot
be said to be a Figure (because, as the Pradīpa says, the
Rasa is not in a subordinate position, and therefore,
there is no Rasavadalaṅkāra , a Rasa is called a Figure
only when it occupies a subordinate position ) 3
The author next states the divisions of poetry.