काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

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यदा त्वामहमद्राक्षं पदविद्याविशारदम् ।
उपाध्यायं तदास्मारं समस्प्राक्षं च संमदम् ॥२९७॥
अन्त्रप्रोतबृहत्कपालनलकक्रूरक्वणत्कङ्कण-
प्रायप्रेङ्खितभूरिभूषणरवैराघोषयन्त्यम्बरम् ।
पीतच्छर्दितरक्तकर्दमघनप्राग्भारघोरोल्लस-
द्व्यालोलस्तनभारभैरववपुर्दर्पोद्धतं धावति ॥२९८॥
‘ Like the roots “ dīdhīṅ ” and “ vevīṅ ”, some people
are not amenable to excellence and prosperity (eṅ and ai,
changes, to which the said roots are not subject) ; others
again are like the “ kvip ” affix, by virtue of whose proxi-
mity, the said two things (excellence and prosperity) do
not exist.
[Here since the speaker is a grammarian, the obscurity attaching
to the expressions becomes an excellence.]
(b) ‘ Yadā tvāmahamadrākṣaṁ
Padavidyāviśāradaṁ
Upādhyāyaṁ tadāsmārṣaṁ
Samasprākṣaṁ cha sammadam.’
‘ When I saw you well-versed in grammatical lore,
I was reminded of my own teacher and became elated with
joy ’.
[The person spoken to being a grammarian, obscurity is an
excellence.]
(c) ‘ Āntraprotabṛhatkapālanalakakrūrakvaṇatkaṅkaṇa—
Prāyapreṅkhitabhūribhūṣaṇaravairāghoṣayantyambaram
Pītachcharditaraktakardamaghanaprāgbhāraghorollasad-
Vyālolastanabhārabhairavavapurdarpoddhataṁ dhāvati ’.
‘ She is rushing forward with proud arrogance, filling
the atmosphere with the jingling of her dangling ornaments
consisting of sculls and thighbones strung on the entrails,—
her body appearing frightful on account of her dangling

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वाच्यवशाद्यथा
मातङ्गाः किमु वल्गितैः किमफलैराडम्बरैर्जम्बुकाः
सारङ्गा महिषा मदं व्रजथ किं शून्येषु शरा न के ।
कोपाटोपसमुद्भटोत्कटसटाकोटेरिभारेः पुरः
सिन्धुध्वानिनि हुङ्कृते स्फुरति यत् तद्गर्जितं गर्जितम् ॥२९९॥
अत्र सिंहे वाच्ये परुषाः शब्दाः ॥
प्रकरणवशाद्यथा
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breasts bespattered with the muddy blood that she has
drunk and vomited.’
[The passion of disgust being suggested here, the harshness of the
words becomes a source of excellence.]
(d). The following is an example where the defect (of
Harshness) becomes an excellence by virtue of the character
of the thing described.—
‘Mātaṅgāḥ kimu valgitaiḥ kimaphalairāḍambarairjambukāḥ
Sāraṅgā mahiṣā madam vrajata kim shūnyeṣu shūrā na ke
Kopāṭopasamudbhaṭotkaṭasaṭākoṭeribhāreḥ puraḥ
Sindhudhvānini huṅkṛte sphurati yat tad garjitam garjitam’
‘O elephants, what of your cries ! O jackals, what of
these useless struttings ! O deer and buffaloes, wherefore
are you so proud ? Who is not brave, in solitude ?
Roaring would be real roaring, only in the presence of the
ocean-like rumble of the lion with his name ruffled in
anger.’
In the latter half of this verse, the lion being the
thing described, the harsh-sounding words are a source
of excellence.
(e) The following is an example of a defect becoming
an excellence, by virtue of the context or occasion.

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रक्ताशोक कृशोदरी क्व नु गता त्यक्त्वानुरक्तं जनं
नो दृष्टेति मुधैव चालयसि किं वातावधूतं शिरः ।
उत्कण्ठाघटमानषट्पदघटासंघट्टदष्टच्छद-
स्तत्पादाहतिमन्तरेण भवतः पुष्पोद्गमोयं कुतः ॥३००॥
अत्र शिरोधूननेन कुपितस्य वचसि ॥
क्वचिन्नीरसे न गुणो न दोषः । यथा
‘Raktāśoka kṛśodarī kva nu gatā
tyaktvānuraktaṁjanam
No dṛṣṭeti mudhaiva chālayasi kiṁ
vātāvadhūtaṁ śiraḥ
Utkaṇṭhāghaṭamānaṣaṭpadaghaṭāsaṅghaṭṭa-
daṣṭachchhadas-
Tatpādāhatimantareṇa bhavataḥ puṣpod-
gamoyaṅkutaḥ.’
‘O red Ashoka tree, whereto has the slender-waisted
one gone, leaving her lover ?—Why do you dishonestly
shake your wind-blown head as if denying your having
seen her ?—Without the touch of her feet, whence could
there appear in you these blossoms, which have their petals
bitten off by the swarms of black bees hovering round in
their anxiety (to get at the flowers)’.
The latter half of the verse is spoken by the speaker
on an occasion when he has become enraged by the dis-
honest behaviour of the tree shaking its head, [and hence
the harshness of the words used is an excellence].
-- In some cases, where there is no Passion depicted,
Harshness is neither a defect nor an excellence. For
example—

268 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA
शीर्णघ्राणाङ्घ्रिपाणीन् व्रणिभिरपघनैर्घर्घरार्यक्तघोषान्
दीर्घाघ्रातानघौघैः पुनरपि घटयत्येक उल्लाघयन् यः ।
घर्मांशोस्तस्य वोन्तर्द्विगुणघनघृणानिघ्ननिर्विघ्नवृत्तेर्
दत्तार्घाः सिद्धसंघैर्विदधतु घृणयः शीघ्रमंहोविघातम् ॥३०१॥
अप्रयुक्तनिहतार्थौ श्लेषादावदुष्टौ । यथा
येन ध्वस्तमनोभवेन बलिजित्कायः पुरा स्त्रीकृतो
यश्चोद्वृत्तभुजङ्गहारवलयोगङ्गां च योधायत् ।
' Shīrṇaghrāṇāṅghripāṇīn vraṇibhirapagha-
nairghargharāvyaktaghoṣān
Dīrghāghrātānaghoghaiḥ punarapi ghaṭayat-
yeka ullāghayan yaḥ
Gharmāṁśostasya vontardviguṇaghanaghṛṇā-
nighnanirvighnavṛtter
Dattārghāḥ siddhasaṅghairvidadhatu ghṛṇayaḥ
shīghramambhovighātam.'
'May the rays of the sun, to whom water-offerings
are made by the hosts of gods, bring about the destruction
of your sins ;--the sun who restores and rejuvenates the
bodies of lepers which, beset with hosts of sins, have the
nose, legs and hands shattered and ulcerated, and whose
voice is indistinct; and whose disposition is affected by
doubly intensified pity.'
[Here since no Passion of any kind is meant to be described, the
high-sounding words do not constitute either a defect or an exce-
llence.]
'Unconventionality' and 'Suppression of Meaning'
are not defective in passages where we have the figure of
Paronomasia. For instance, in the following verse :—
'Yena dhvastamanobhavena balijitkāyaḥ purāstrīkṛto
Yashchodvṛttabhujangahāravalayogangāṁ cha yodhārayat

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यस्याहुः शशिमच्छिरोहर इति स्तुत्यं च नामामराः
पायात्स स्वयमन्धकक्षयकरस्त्वां सर्वदोमाधवः ॥३०२॥
अत्र माधवपक्षे शशिमदन्धकक्षयशब्दावप्रयुक्तनिहतार्थौ ॥
अश्लीलं क्वचिद्गुणः । यथा सुरतारम्भगोष्ठ्याम् “द्व्यर्थैः
पदैः पिशुनयेच्च रहस्यवस्तु” इति कामशास्त्रस्थितौ
Yasyāhuḥ shashimachchhirohara iti stutyaṁ cha nāmāmarāḥ
Pāyāt sa svayamandhakakṣayakarastvāṁ sarvadomādhavaḥ.
(A) (Applied to Kṛṣṇa)—‘May the all-giving husband
of Lakṣmī protect you !—He who has destroyed the de-
mon Shakaṭa, and himself unborn, conquered Balī, assumed
a female form, subdued the serpent Kālīya ; in whom all
sound becomes merged, who upheld the mountain and the
earth, whose praiseworthy name the gods declare to be
‘the chopper of the head of Rāhu’, and who established
the residence of the Andhaka race.’
(B) (Applied to Shiva)—‘May the husband of Umā
ever protect you !,—He, the destroyer of the mind-born
Love-god, who turned into an arrow the body of Viṣṇu
(the subduer of Balī), who has large serpents as his necklets
and bangles, bears the Gaṅgā, and the moon also on his
forehead, whose praiseworthy name declared by the gods
is ‘Hara’, and who destroyed the demon Andhaka’.
In this verse the terms ‘shashimat’ and ‘andhakaṣaya’
are ‘unconventional’, when applied to Kṛṣṇa (but are not
regarded as defective).
The ‘Indecorous’ is an excellence in certain cases ;
for instance, in conversations leading upto sexual dalliance ;
in accordance with the dictum of the Science of Erotics
that ‘secret matters are to be concealed by means of words
with double meanings’;—e. g., in the following verse—

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करिहस्तेन संबाधे प्रविश्यान्तर्विलोड़िते ।
उपसर्पन् ध्वजः पुंसः साधनान्तर्विराजते ॥३०३॥
शमकथासु
उत्तानोच्छूनमण्डूकपाटितोदरसंनिभे ।
क्लेदिनि स्त्रीव्रणे सक्तिरकृमेः कस्य जायते ॥३०४॥
निर्वाणवैरदहनाः प्रशमादरीणां
नन्दन्तु पाण्डुतनयाः सह माधवेन।
रक्तप्रसाधितभुवः क्षतविग्रहाश्च
स्वस्था भवन्तु कुरुराजसुताः सभृत्याः ॥३०५॥
अत्र भाव्यमङ्गलसूचकम् ॥
Karihastena saṁbādhe praviśyāntarviloḍite
Upasarpan dhvajaḥ puṁsaḥ sādhanāntarvirājate.
Similarly also in conversation dealing with the quiet-
istic sentiment ; e.g.
‘ Uttānochchhūnamaṇḍūkapāṭitodarasannibhe
Kledini strīvraṇe saktirakṛmeḥ kasya jāyate.’
Further, in the following verse, ‘ Indecorousness ’ is
regarded as an excellence, by virtue of its affording a
premonition of impending calamity—
‘ Nirvāṇavairadahanāḥ prashamādarīṇāṁ
Nandantu pāṇḍutanayāḥ saha mādhavena
Raktaprasādhitabhuvaḥ kṣatavigrahāścha
Svasthā bhavantu kururājasutāḥ sabhṛtyāḥ ’
‘ May the sons of Pāṇḍu along with Kṛṣṇa rejoice,
on having the fire of animosity extinguished by the death
(or peacefulness) of enemies ! and may the sons of the
Kuru-king, along with their dependants, rest at peace (or

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संदिग्धमपि वाच्यमहिम्ना क्वचिन्नियतार्थप्रतीतिकृत्त्वेन व्याज-
स्तुतिपर्यवसायित्वे गुणः । यथा
पृथुकार्तस्वरपात्रं भूषितनिःशेषपरिजनं देव ।
विलसत्करेणुगहनं संप्रति सममावयोः सदनम् ॥३०६॥
प्रतिपाद्यप्रतिपादकयोर्ज्ञत्वे सत्यप्रतीतं गुणः । यथा
in heaven), after having ruled over the world-kingdom
attached to them (or, after having covered the earth with
their blood), and having their quarrels set at rest (or
having their bodies cut up).'
[Here the thing that is wished to happen is indicative of inaus-
piciousness.]
In cases where, the force of the character of the thing
described tends to point to a definite meaning, ‘Ambiguity’
is regarded as an excellence, on account of its leading up
to the Figure of Dissembling Eulogy. For instance, in
the following versu—
‘Pṛthukārtasvarapātraṁ bhūṣitaniḥśeṣaparijanaṁ deva
Vilasatkareṇugahanaṁ saṁprati samamāvayoḥ sadanam’.—
‘O Lord, at present the houses of both of us (you and
I) are similar : yours being full of large golden vessels
(and mine, full of the piteous shriekings of children), with
all the servants decorated (mine, with all the inmates lying
on the ground), and teeming with large elephants (mine,
covered with mouse-dust);’—
[The fact of the words being addressed to the king point to the
figure of Dissembling Eulogy, whereby the king’s affluence is
described]
In cases where the speaker and the person spoken to
are both learned men, ‘unintelligibility’ is an excellence.
For instance, in the following verse—

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आत्माराम विहितरतयो निर्विकल्पे समाधौ
ज्ञानोद्रेकाद्विघटिततमोग्रन्थयः सत्त्वनिष्ठाः ।
यं वीक्षन्ते कमपि तमसां ज्योतिषां वा परस्तात्
तं मोहान्धः कथमयममुं वेत्ति देवं पुराणम् ॥३०७॥
स्वयं वा परामर्शे । यथा
षडधिकदशनाडीचक्रमध्यस्थितात्मा
हृदि विनिहितरूपः सिद्धिदस्तद्विदां यः ।
अविचलितमनोभिः साधकैर्मृग्यमाणः
स जयति परिणद्धः शक्तिभिः शक्तिनाथः ॥३०८॥
‘ Ātmārāmā vihitaratayo nirvikalpe samādhau
Jñānodrekād vighaṭitatamogranthayaḥ sattvaniṣṭhāḥ
Yaṁ vīkṣante kimapi tamasāṁ jyotiṣāṁ vā parastāt
Taṁ mohāndhaḥ kathamayamamuṁ vetti devaṁ purāṇam.
‘ How can this man (Duryodhana), blinded with delu-
sion as he is, recognize the eternal God, whom only those
perceive who, fixed in Goodness, have outgrown Dark-
ness and Passion, and who have the knot of ignorance cut
by the current of knowledge, given upto abstract medita-
tion, and rejoicing in the contemplation of the god-head’.
[This is said by Bhīmasèna to Sahadeva, both highly educated
princes : hence the use of Yoga technicalities is not a defect.]
In soliloquy also Unintelligibility is not a defect ; e. g.,
in the following—
Ṣaḍadhikadaśanāḍīchakramadhyasthitātmā
Hṛdi vinihitarūpaḥ siddhidastadvidāṁ yaḥ
Avichalitamanobhiḥ sādhakairmṛgyamāṇaḥ
Sa jayati pariṇaddhaḥ śaktibhiḥ śaktināthaḥ ’ ;—
‘ Glorious is Shiva, the Lord of the Female Divinity,
possessed of manifold potentiality, having his soul located
within the circle of the sixteenfold artery, who has his

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अधमप्रकृत्युक्तिषु ग्राम्यो गुणः । यथा
फुल्लुक्करं कलमकूरणिहं वहन्ति
जे सिन्धुवारविडवा मह वल्लहा दे ।
जे गालिदस्स महिसीदहिणो सरिच्छा
दे किं च मुद्धविअइल्लपसूणपुञ्जा ॥३०९॥
अत्र कलमभक्तमहिषीदधिशब्दा ग्राम्या अपि विदूषकोक्तौ ॥
न्यूनपदं क्वचिद्गुणः । यथा
गाढालिङ्गनवामनीकृतकुचप्रोद्भूतरोमोद्गमा
सान्द्रस्नेहरसातिरेकविगलच्छ्रीमन्नितम्बाम्बरा ।
form in the heart, the ordainer of success to those who
know Him, and who is looked up to by devotees with
steady minds'.
‘Vulgarity’ is an excellence in the speeches of low-
born persons.
e.g.—
‘Phullukkuraṁ kalamakūraṇihaṁ vahanti
Je sindhubarabiḍavā mahaballahā de
Je gālīdassa mahiṣīdahiṇo sarichchhā
De kiṁ cha muddhaviaillapasūṇapuñjā’.
‘Those branches of the Sindhuvāra trees are dear to
me, which bear fruits like rice; as also are those masses
of Mallikā flowers which resemble the squeezed curdled
milk of a she-buffalo’.
In this the terms ‘kalama’, ‘bhakta’, ‘kūra’, ‘mahiṣī’
and ‘dadhi’, though vulgar, are not regarded as defective,
as they occur in the speech of the clown.
‘Verbal deficiency’ is in some cases an excellence, e.g.,
in the following :—
‘Gāḍhāliṅganavāmanīkṛtakuchaprodbhūtaromodgamā
Sāndrasneharasātirekavigalachchrīmannitambāmbarā
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मा मा मानद माति मामलमिति क्षामाक्षरोल्लापिनी
सुप्ता किं नु मृता नु किं मनसि मे लीना विलीना नु किम् ॥३१०॥
क्वचिन्न गुणो न दोषः । यथा
तिष्ठेत्कोपवशात्प्रभावपिहिता दीर्घं न सा कुप्यति
स्वर्गायोत्पतिता भवेन्मयि पुनर्भावार्द्रमस्या मनः ।
तां हर्तुं विबुधद्विषोपि न च मे शक्ताः पुरोवर्तिनीं
सा चात्यन्तमगोचरं नयनयोर्यातेति कोयं विधिः ॥३११॥
Mā mā mānada māti māmalamiti kṣāmākṣarollāpinī
Suptā kim nu mṛtā nu kim manasi me līnā vilīnā nu kim’.
Her breasts dwarfed by firm embrace, and the body
thrilling all over, her beautiful clothing slipping away
from her waist, under the intensity of deep love, she uttered
broken words—“Do not ! O ! do not ! my love ! not
too much ! Ah me ! Enough !”—After which I know
not if she went to sleep or was dead, or having entered into
my heart, became assimilated therewith’.
[Here the broken utterance serve to intensify the feeling depicted.]
In certain cases the same defect of ‘Verbal Deficiency’
is neither a defect nor an excellence ; e.g., in the follow-
ing—
‘Tiṣṭhet kopavashāt prabhāvapihitā dīrghaṁ na sā kupyati
Svargāyotpatitā bhavenmayi punarbhāvārdramasyā manaḥ
Tāṁ hartuṁ vibudhaviṣopi na cha me shaktāḥ purovartinīṁ
Sā chātyantamagocharam nayanayoryāteti koyam vidhiḥ.’
‘May she be lying concealed ?—She angers not for
long ! Might she have flown to the heavens ?—Her
heart bore deep affection towards me. Even the demons
could not wrench her away from before me.—And yet
she has passed completely beyond the range of my vision.
What a process of fate !’

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अत्र पिहिता इत्यतोनन्तरं 'नैतद्यतः' इत्येतैर्न्यूनैः पदैर्विशेष-
बुद्धेरकरणान्न गुणः । उत्तरा प्रतिपत्तिः पूर्वा प्रतिपत्तिं बाधते
इति न दोषः ॥
अधिकपदं क्वचिद्गुणः । यथा
यद्वञ्चनाहितमतिर्बहुचाटुगर्भं
कार्योन्मुखः खलजनः कृतकं ब्रवीति ।
तत्साधवो न न विदन्ति विदन्ति किंतु
कर्तुं वृथा प्रणयमस्य न पारयन्ति ॥३१२॥
अत्र 'विदन्ति' इति द्वितीयमन्ययोगव्यवच्छेदपरम् ।
After 'pihitā', 'concealed', there should have been
the expression—'it is not so, because' and so forth; but
this deficiency cannot be regarded as an excellence, because
it does not afford any additional suggestion (as is done in
the proceeding case); nor can it be regarded as a defect,
because inasmuch as the second statement ('she angers not
for long') by itself sets aside the first one, there is no real
harm done by the omission of the words.
'Redundancy' is sometimes an excellence; e.g. in the
following—
'Yadvañcanāhitamatirbahucāṭugarbhaṁ
Kāryonmukhaḥ khalajanaḥ kṛtakaṁ bravīti
Tatsādhavo na na vidanti vidanti kiṁtu
Kartuṁ vṛthā praṇayamasya na pārayanti'.
'The deceitful and cunning way in which evil people
tell lies in business,—it is not that the good men do not
know it, they do know it, even though they are unable to
frustrate their hypocritical attachment'.
The second 'vidanti', 'they do know', serves the pur-
pose of excluding others from the knowledge in question
[and as such the repetition is not a defect].

यथा वा
वद वद जितः स शत्रुर्न हतो जल्पंश्च तव तवास्मीति ।
चित्रं चित्रमरोदीद्धा हेति परं मृते पुत्रे ॥३१३॥
इत्येवमादौ हर्षभयादियुक्ते वक्तरि ॥
कथितपदं क्वचिद्गुणः लाटानुप्रासे अर्थान्तरसंक्रमित-
वाच्ये विहितस्यानुवाद्यत्वे च। क्रमेणोदाहरणम्—
सितकरकररुचिरविभा विभाकराकार धरणिधर कीर्तिः ।
पौरुषकमला कमला सापि तवैवास्ति नान्यस्य ॥३१४॥

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ताला जाअंति गुणा जाला दे सहिअएहिँ घेप्पन्ति ।
रइकिरणानुग्गहिआईं होन्ति कमलाईं कमलाईं ।।३१५।।
जितेन्द्रियत्वं विनयस्य कारणं गुणप्रकर्षो विनयादवाप्यते ।
गुणप्रकर्षेण जनोनुरज्यते जनानुरागप्रभवा हि संपदः ।।३१६।।
पतत्प्रकर्षमपि क्वचिद्गुणः। यथा उदाहृते प्रागप्राप्त-इत्यादौ ।३१७।
(b) ‘Tālā jāaṁti guṇāḥ
Jālā de sahiaehim gheppanti
Raïkiraṇānuggahiāïṁ
Honti kamalāïm Kamalāïm.
‘Excellences appear when they are appreciated by
really appreciative men. It is only when favoured by the
Sun’s rays that lotuses become lotuses’.
[Here the second ‘lotuses’ connotes full-grown fragrance, and
hence having its expressed meaning transformed it is not a defect].
(c) ‘Jitendriyatvaṁ vinayasya kāraṇaṁ
Guṇaprakarṣo vinayādavāpyate
Guṇaprakarṣeṇa janonurajyate
Janānurāgaprabhavā hi saṁpadaḥ’.
Subjugation of the senses leads to humility ; by means
of humility is excellence of qualities attained ; through
excellent qualities, people become attached ; and prosperity
follows from the attachment of the people’.
[The ‘humility’ described in the first sentence as the effect, is
again referred to in the second sentence as the cause, and so on;
and under the circumstances, the use of the same words and expressi-
ons only serves to lend force to the idea that what appears as the
cause in the following sentence is precisely the same as that spoken
of as the effect in the preceding sentence.]
‘Receding Excellence’, is sometimes an excellence ;
as in the verse ‘Prāgaprāpta-&c’. (see above, stanza No. 209).
[Where the softer language adopted in the fourth line is only
right and proper, as it involves the remembrance of the speaker’s
preceptor.]

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समाप्तपुनरात्तं क्वचिन्न गुणो न दोषः । यत्र न विशेषण-
मात्रदानार्थं पुनर्ग्रह्णम् अपि तु वाक्यान्तरमेव क्रियते । यथा
अत्रैव प्रागप्राप्त इत्यादौ ॥३१८॥
अपदस्थसमासं क्वचिद् गुणः । यथा उदाहृते रक्ताशोक-
इत्यादौ ॥३१९॥
गर्भितं तथैव । यथा—
हुमि अवहत्थिअरेहो णिरंकुसो अह विवेअरहिओ वि ।
सिविणे वि तुमम्मि पुणो पत्तिहि भत्तिं ण पसुमरामि ॥३२०॥
अत्र प्रतीहीति मध्ये दृढप्रत्ययोत्पादनाय । एवमन्यदपि लक्ष्याल्ल-
क्ष्यम् ॥५९॥
‘Resumption of the Concluded’ is neither a defect nor
an excellence in cases where the resumption is not for the
purpose of adding a further epithet, but is introduced as
a distinct statement; an example of this also we have in the
verse just referred to (‘Prāgaprāpta-etc. stanza No. 209).
‘Misplaced Compound’ is an excellence in certain
cases; e. g., in the verse ‘Raktāshoka &c’. (See above,
stanza No. 300).
[Where, though the long compound is not quite appropriate in the
delineation of the erotic passion, yet, as serving to intensify the
displeasure felt by the suffering lover, it helps to heighten the
said passion and becomes, as such, an excellence.]
Similarly the ‘Parenthetical’ also is an excellence in
some cases; e. g., in the following :
‘Humi avahatthiareho
Ṇiramkuso aha vivearahio vi
Siviṇevi tumammi puṇo.
Pattihi bhattiṁ ṇa pasumarāmi’.
‘Though devoid of the steady decorum of behaviour,
unrestrained and indiscreet, I do not even dream, believe me,
of disobeying you’. 59.

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व्यभिचारिरसस्थायिभावानां शब्दवाच्यता ।
कष्टकल्पनया व्यक्तिरनुभावविभावयोः ॥ ६० ॥
प्रतिकूलविभावादिग्रहो दीप्तिः पुनः पुनः ।
अकाण्डे प्रथनच्छेदावङ्गस्याप्यतिविस्तृतिः ॥ ६१ ॥
अङ्गिनोननुसंधानं प्रकृतीनां विपर्ययः ।
अनङ्गस्याभिधानं च रसे दोषाः स्युरीदृशाः ॥ ६२ ॥
( १ ) स्वशब्दोपादानं व्यभिचारिणो यथा
सब्रीडा दयितानने सकरुणा मातङ्गचर्माम्बरे
सत्रासा भुजगे सविस्मयरसा चन्द्रेऽमृतस्यन्दिनि ।
सेर्ष्या जह्नुसुतावलोकनविधौ दीना कपालोदरे
पार्वत्या नवसंगमप्रणयिनी दृष्टिः शिवायास्तु वः ॥३२१॥
The parenthetical clause ‘believe me’ is inserted for
the purpose of emphasising the assertion.
So may others be illustrated.
(1) (2) (3)—The mention by name of the variant sentiments,
the Passion and of the latent sentiments,—(4), (5) Far-fetched
Indication of the Ensuant and the Excitant,—(6) Admission of
adverse Concomitants,—(7) Repeated Heightening,—(8) Unti-
mely Introduction,—(9) Untimely Interruption,—(10) Excesive
dilatation of the Subordinate Factor,—(11) Neglect of
the Principal Factor,—(12) Perversion of Characters, and
(13) Mention of what is not Germane; such are the defects in the
delineation of Passion, Rasa. 60-62.
(1) Example of the mention by name, of the variant
emotions—
‘Savrīḍā dayitānane sakaruṇā mātaṅgacharmāmbare
Satrāsā bhujage savismayarasā chandremṛtasyandini
Serṣyā jahnusutāvalokanavidhau dīnā kapālodare.
Pārvatyā navasaṅgamapraṇayinī dṛṣṭiḥ shivāyāstu vaḥ’.

अत्र व्रीडादीनाम् ।
'व्यानम्रा दयितानने मुकुलिता मातङ्गचर्माम्बरे
सोत्कम्पा भुजगे निमेषरहिता चन्द्रेमृतस्यन्दिनि ।
मीलद्भूः सुरसिन्धुदर्शनविधौ म्लाना कपालोदरे'
इत्यादि तु युक्तम् ॥
(२) रसस्य स्वशब्देन शृङ्गारादिशब्देन वा वाच्यत्वम् । क्रमेणो-
दाहरणम्—
तामनङ्गजयमङ्गलश्रियं किंचिदुच्चभुजमूललोकिताम् ।
नेत्रयोः कृतवतोस्य गोचरे कोप्यजायत रसो निरन्तरः ॥३२२॥

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आलोक्य कोमलकपोलतलाभिषिक्त
व्‍यक्तानुरागसुभगामभिराममूर्तिम् ।
पश्यैष बाल्यमतिवृत्य विवर्तमानः
शृङ्गारसीमनि तरङ्गितमातनोति ॥३२३॥
(३) स्थायिनो यथा
संप्रहारे प्रहरणैः प्रहाराणां परस्परम् ।
ठणत्कारैः श्रुतिगतैरूत्साहस्तस्य कोप्यभूत् ॥३२४॥
(a) ‘ Tāmanaṅgajayamaṅgalaśriyaṁ
Kiñchiduchchabhujamūlalokitām
Netrayoḥ kṛtavatosya gochare
Kopyajāyata raso nirantaraḥ
‘ When he got her within the range of his vision,—
she, the auspicious glory of the victory of the Love-god,
and having the slight elevation at the end of her arms
rendered perceptible,—there became manifested in him
a peculiar unimpeded passion.’
(b) ‘ Ālokya komalakapolatalābhiṣikta—
Vyaktānurāgasubhagāmabhirāmamūrtim
Pashyaiṣa bālyamativṛtya vivartamānaḥ
Shṛṅgārasīmani taraṅgitamātanoti.’
‘ See how this young man, just passed his boyhood,
behaves,—striking like waves as it were, on the boundaries
of the Erotic, on seeing her of beautiful form, graceful and
exquisitely handsome, through the loveful blush on her
soft cheeks.’
(3) Example of the ‘ mention by name ’ of the Latent
Emotion—
‘ Samprahāre praharaṇaiḥ prahārāṇāṁ parasparam
Ṭhaṇatkāraiḥ shrutigatairutsāhastasya kopyabhūt.’
‘ When he heard the sound of weapons clashing in
battle, there appeared in him a peculiar daring.’

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अत्रोत्साहस्य ।।
(४) कर्पूरधूलिधवलद्युतिपूरधौत-
दिङ्मण्डले शिशिररोचिषि तस्य यूनः ।
लीलाशिरोंशुकनिवेशविशेषक्लृप्ति-
व्यक्तस्तनोन्नतिरभून्नयनाव्नौ सा ॥३२५॥
अत्रोद्दीपनालम्बनरूपाः शृङ्गारयोग्या विभावा अनुभाव-
पर्यवसायिनः स्थिता इति कष्टकल्पना ।।
(५) परिहरति रतिं मतिं लुनीते स्खलति भृशं परिवर्तते च भूयः ।
इति बत विषमा दशास्य देहं परिभवति प्रसभं किमत्र कुर्मः॥३२६॥
Here the mention of ‘utsāha’ (Daring) is defective.
(4) ‘On the atmosphere being washed by the flood
of the camphor-like bright light of the Moon,—she, having
the appearance of her breasts brought about by a sportive
manipulation of her veil, came within the range of the
young man's vision.’
What are described here are the two kinds of excitants—
(a) basic (in the shape of the woman) and (b) aggravative
(in the shape of moonlight)—of the Erotic Passion ; and
these do not serve to indicate the corresponding ensuants
(in the young man, in the shape of thrilling and so forth) ;
and it is with some difficulty that they become compre-
hended. This is what is meant by the ensuants being
‘far-fetched.’
(5) ‘He shuns pleasure, interrupts his thoughts,
trembles and rolls about ; thus, Oh ! a violent condition
is attacking his body ; what shall we do ?’
What are described here are the ensuants (certain effects
produced in the young man) ; and it is only with some
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अत्र रतिपरिहारादीनामनुभावानां करुणादावपि संभवा-
त्कामिनीरूपो विभावो यत्नतः प्रतिपाद्यः ॥
(६) प्रसादे वर्तस्व प्रकटय मुदं संत्यज रुषं
प्रिये शुष्यन्त्यङ्गान्यमृतमिव तें सिञ्चतु वचः ।
निधानं सौख्यानां क्षणमभिमुखं स्थापय मुखं
न मुग्धे प्रत्येतुं प्रभवति गतः कालहरिणः ॥३२७॥
अत्र शृङ्गारे प्रतिकूलस्य शान्तस्यानित्यताप्रकाशनरूपो
विभावस्तत्प्रकाशितो निर्वेदश्च व्यभिचारी उपात्तः॥
णिहुअरमणम्मि लोअणपहम्मि पडिए गुरुअणमज्झम्मि ।
सअलपरिहारहिअआ वणगमणं एव्व महइ वहू ॥३२८॥
is the excitant; specially as the ensuants described are such
as could be due to the Passion of Pathos also.
[This is what is meant by the excitant being 'farfetched']
(6a) 'Do be propitiated; O my love! give expression
to joyfulness and give up anger; let thy nectarine voice
sprinkle my withering limbs. Just for a moment keep
your face, the very fount of felicity, before me. O lovely
damsel, past opportunities never come again.'
What is described here is : (1) an excitant, in the shape
of the man's expression of the notion of the impermanence
of pleasures, and also (2) a variant emotion, in the shape
of self-disparagement,—both of which are concomitants
helpful to the Quietistic Passion, but adverse to (and marring
the effect of) the Erotic (which is the Passion described).
[Thus, this is an example of the admission of adverse concomitants
in the shape of discordant excitant and variants.]
(6b) 'Her eyes having fallen upon her lover, while
she was among her elders, she withdraws her heart from
all work and is anxious to proceed to the forest.'

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अत्र सकलपरिहारवनगमने शान्तानुभावौ । इन्धनाद्या-
नयनव्याजेनोपभोगार्थं वनगमनं चेत् न दोषः ॥
(७) दीप्तिः पुनः पुनर्यथा कुमारसंभवे रतिविलापे ॥
(८) अकाण्डे प्रथनं यथा वेणीसंहारे द्वितीयेऽङ्केनेकवीरक्षये
प्रवृत्ते भानुमत्या सह दुर्योधनस्य शृङ्गारवर्णनम् ।
(९) अकाण्डे छेदो यथा वीरचरिते द्वितीयेऽङ्के राघवभार्गव-
योर्धाराधिरूढे वीररसे 'कङ्कणमोचनाय गच्छामि' इति राघ-
वस्योक्तौ ॥
The ensuants depicted here are the losing of interest in
all work and proceeding to the forest; and both of these are
helpful to the quiestistic Passion (and adverse to the Erotic.)
[Thus this is a case of the 'admission of adverse concomitants',
in the shape of the ensuant.]
There would be nothing objectionable if there were
something to indicate that the desire to proceed to the
forest was for the purpose of meeting the lover, under the
pretext of fetching fuel and such things.
(7) As an example of 'Repeated Heightening' we
have 'Rati's Lament' in the Kumārasambhava.
(8) An example of 'untimely introduction' we have
in the Second Act of the Veṇīsaṁhāra, where, while the
slaughter of numerous heroes is proceeding, the poet
proceeds to describe the loving dalliances of Duryodhana
with Bhānumatī.
(9) An example of 'untimely interruption' we have
in the Second Act of the Mahāvīracharita, where the Heroic
sentiment between Rāma and Parashurāma having reached
the highest pitch, Rāma says—' I am going to unfasten
the nuptial bracelet.'