रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

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respective original substrata. So death is called पञ्चत्व or पञ्चता ।
“पृथिव्यादिपञ्चमहाभूतानां स्वांशसंक्रमणात् पृथक्त्वम्' इति भरतः। पञ्चताम् is in
२या owing to its being the indirect object of the root नी in नीतः।
N. B. The King here means to say, 'It is known in the
world that numberless passionate persons are pierced by the five
arrows of Cupid. But so far as his own poor case is concerned,
the thing is quite reversed, as numberless (असंखा) arrows are
leading the few passionate persons like his own self to पञ्चता
(death).
Cf. “सुभगे कोटिसंख्यात्वमुपेत्य मदनाशुगैः ।
वसन्ते पञ्चता त्यक्ता पञ्चतासीद् वियोगिनाम् ॥
Again,
“तव कुसुमशरत्वं शीतरश्मित्वमिन्दो-
र्द्वयमिदमयथार्थं दृश्यते मद्विधेषु ।” etc.—Shak. III. 3.
The metre is here शार्दूलविक्रीडित । The figure of speech is
here विरोधाभास, but विरोध is refuted when पञ्चता means death.
There is a possibility of विषमालङ्कार here as well, for there is a
discordance in the function of cause and effect. The god of
love possessing five arrows and piercing numberless people
became otherwise in function in the case of the King, when the
arrows became numberless and the passionate persons were led
to पञ्चता । The definition of विरोधाभास is—
“विरोधश्चाविरोघेऽपि विरुद्धत्वेन यद्वचः'—काः प्रः १०।११०
The definition of विषम is—
“गुणी क्रिये वा यत् स्यातां विरुद्धे हेतुकार्ययोः ।
यहारब्धस्य वैकल्यमनर्थस्य च सम्भवः ॥
विरूपयोः सङ्घटना या च तद्विषम' मतम्” ॥ (सा. द. १०।७०-७१)