काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

18 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
गङ्गातटे घोष इत्यादेः प्रयोगात् येषां न तथा प्रतिपत्तिः तेषां
पावनत्वादीना धर्माणां तथाप्रतिपादनात्मनः प्रयोजनाच्च मुख्येन
अमुख्योऽर्थो लक्ष्यते यत् स आरोपितः शब्दव्यापारः सान्तरार्थ-
निष्ठो लक्षणा ॥ ९॥
‘ gaṅgāyāṁ ghoṣaḥ ’ (used in the sense of ‘ the ranch in the
Gaṅgā ’) the primary meaning of the term ‘ Gaṅgā ’ is
the river itself, and this is incompatible as the location for
the ranch ;—hence in both these cases ‘ the primary mean-
ing is barred ’; and ‘ another ’ secondary meaning comes
to be implied by the primary meaning in each of these
two cases,—(a) the term ‘ kuśala ’, implying the sense of
the ‘ expert ’, which is ‘ in affinity with ’ the primary sense
of ‘ grass-chopping,’ in this that just as the ‘ expert in
business is possessed of discrimination so is the grass-
chopper also (who cuts what he needs and rejects what he
does not need),—and (b) the term ‘ Gaṅgā ’ implying
the sense of ‘ the bank,’ which is ‘ in affinity with ’ the
primary sense of the ‘ river ’ in this that it is situated in
close proximity ,—and while in (a), the case of the term
‘ kuśala ’, the said implication is based upon ‘ usage ’
(by which the term is generally used in the sense of ‘expert’),
while in (b), in that of the term ‘ Gaṅgā,’ the said impli-
cation proceeds on the basis of the ‘ purpose ’ of pointing
out those properties of ‘ sanctity ’ and the rest which could
not be expressed by the use of such expressions as ‘ gaṅgā-
tate ghoṣaḥ ’ (‘ the ranch on the bank of the Gaṅgā ’); this
function of indirect implication is ‘ imposed ’ upon the
word, in the sense that it is not direct (from the word to
the meaning), but indirect, through certain intervening
factors (in the shape of the ‘ incompatibility of the primary
meaning ’ and the rest mentioned in the text). 9.