काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

16 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
हिमपयःशङ्खाद्याश्रयेषु परमार्थतो भिन्नेषु शुक्लादिषु यद्वशेन
शुक्ल. शुक्ल इत्याद्यभिन्नाभिधानप्रत्ययोत्पत्तिस्तत् शुक्लत्वादि
सामान्यम् । गुडतण्डुलादिपाकादिष्वेवमेव पाकत्वादि । बाल-
वृद्धशुकाद्युदीरितेषु डित्थादिशब्देषु च प्रतिक्षणं भिद्यमानेषु
डित्थाद्यर्थेषु वा डित्थत्वाद्यस्तीति सर्वेषां शब्दानां जातिरेव
'प्रवृत्तिनिमित्तमित्यन्ये । तद्वान् अपोहो वा शब्दार्थ. कैश्चिदुक्त
इति ग्रन्थगौरवभयात् प्रकृतानुपयोगाच्च न दर्शितम् ॥७॥
Some people (1. e. the Mīmāṁsakas) have argued as
follows :—"(a) Even though the quality of whiteness
subsisting in such varied substances as the snow, the
milk, the conch and other things is in reality diverse, yet
there is something in them by virtue of which all of them
are spoken of and comprehended under the single common
name 'whiteness' ; and this something is what has been
called the 'community of whiteness',—(b) similarly, in
the cooking of such diverse things as molasses, rice and so
forth, there is the 'community of cooking';—(c) as also
in the name 'Ḍittha' as pronounced by such diverse
individuals as the boy, the grown up man, the parrot and
so forth ; or as applied to such and such objects named
'Ḍittha' as are undergoing transformation at every mo-
ment, there is the 'community of the name Ḍittha';—and
from all this it is clear that the denotation of the word
consists (in all cases) in the community only (and not in
quality, action and name also.)"—7
There is another view held by others (i.e. the Naiyāyikas)
viz., that what is denoted by the word is the Individual as
belonging to the Community.
Yet others (Bauddhas) have held the view that what is