काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER II 17
स मुख्योऽर्थस्तत्र मुख्यो व्यापारोऽस्याभिधोच्यते ॥ ८ ॥
स इति साक्षात्संकेतितः । अस्येति शब्दस्य ॥ ८ ॥
मुख्यार्थबाधे तद्योगे रूढितोऽथ प्रयोजनात् ।
अन्योऽर्थो लक्ष्यते यत्सा लक्षणारोपिता क्रिया ॥ ९ ॥
‘कर्मणि कुशलः’ इत्यादौ दर्भग्रहणाद्ययोगात् ‘गङ्गायां
घोषः’ इत्यादौ च गङ्गादीनां घोषाद्याधारत्वासंभवात् मुख्यार्थस्य
बाधे विवेचकत्वादौ सामीप्ये च संबन्धे रूढितः प्रसिद्धेः तथा
denoted by the word is the ‘Apoha’, i.e., ‘the negation
of the contrary’.
[e. g., what the word ‘ox’ denotes is ‘the negation of the ‘non-ox’,
this view being in accordance with the Bauddha theory that there
is absolutely no positive entity in the world.]
All these various views are not set forth here, as it
would unduly prolong our work, and it would not serve
any useful purpose in regard to the real subject-matter
of the treatise.
That is the primary meaning; and this is the primary
function of it (the word), called ‘denotation’.—(8)
‘That’—i.e., the directly conventional;—‘of it’, of
the word. 8.
When the primary meaning is precluded (by incompati-
bility), another meaning, in affinity therewith, comes to be
implied,—either on the basis of usage or for a special
purpose,—this process of imposed implication is called ‘Indica-
tion’, Lakṣaṇā.—(9)
(a) In the expression ‘karmaṇi kuśalaḥ’, (used in
the sense of ‘expert in his work’) the primary meaning
of the word ‘kuśalaḥ’ is ‘grass-chopper’, and this
idea of ‘grass-chopping’ is not compatible with the
sense of the sentence;—similarly in the expression
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