काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

12 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
वाचकादीनां क्रमेण स्वरूपमाह
साक्षात्संकेतितं योर्थमभिधत्ते स वाचकः॥ ७ ॥
इहागृहीतसंकेतस्य शब्दस्यार्थप्रतीतेरभावात्संकेतसहाय एव
शब्दोऽर्थविशेषं प्रतिपादयतीति यस्य यत्राव्यवधानेन संकेतो
गृह्यते स तस्य वाचकः ॥७॥
सङ्केतितश्चतुर्भेदो जात्यादिर्जातिरेव वा ।
यद्यप्यर्थक्रियाकारितया प्रवृत्तिनिवृत्तियोग्या व्यक्तिरेव
तथाप्यानन्त्याद् व्यभिचाराच्च तत्र संकेतः कर्तुं न युज्यत इति
गौः शुक्लश्चलो डित्थ इत्यादीनां विषयविभागो न प्राप्नोतीति
च। तदुपाधावेव संकेतः।
may be, “ since the bird is sitting so peacefully, you could
not have come here ere this ; your protestation that you
had come here is consequently false.”
[This suggestion is based upon the fact of the two interlocutors
being lovers.]
The author now proceeds to describe in due order
the character of the Expressive and other kinds of words :—
That which denotes the direct conventional meaning is the
‘ Expressive ’ word.—(7)
As a matter of fact, in ordinary parlance, there is
no comprehension of the meaning of a word, the con-
vention regarding whose denotation is not known ;
thus it is only when the word is helped by its usage that
it expresses a certain meaning ; and when the conventional
denotation is apprehended directly, without the inter-
vention of any other agency, the word is said to be ‘ ex-
pressive ’ of that denotation or meaning. 7.
The conventional denotation is four-fold, consisting of Com-
munity and the rest,—or (according to some) Community alone.