काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER IV 109 अत्र नागरिकाणामिति षष्ठ्याः । रमणीयः क्षत्रियकुमार आसीत् इति कालस्य । एषा हि भग्नमहेश्वरकार्मुकं दाशरथिं प्रति कुपितस्य भार्गवस्योक्ति । वचनस्य यथा । ताणं गुणग्गहणाणं ताणुक्कंठाणं तस्स पेम्मस्स । ताणं भणिआणं सुंदर एरिसिअँ जाअमवसाणं ॥१०२॥ अत्र गुणग्रहणादीनां बहुत्वं प्रेम्णश्चैकत्वं द्योत्यते ॥ पुरुषव्यत्ययस्य यथा The suggestion here lies in the genitive ending in ‘of city-women,’ ‘nāgarīkāṇāṁ.’ [The use of the expression ‘husbands of city-women,’ instead of city-men, suggests the extreme cleverness of the speaker, who is able to capture, not the ordinary men of the city, but those men of the city who have acquired much cleverness by their connection with the very clever ‘city-women.’] In the sentence ‘lovely was this Kṣattriya boy,’ the suggestion lies in the tense ; it is said by the enraged Bhārgava with reference to Rāma who has broken the bow of Shiva. [The suggestion by the use of the Past Tense being that the boy is as good as already killed by me and exists no more.] The following is an example of suggestion by num- ber— ‘O beautiful one ! such has been the end of those appreciations of good qualities, of those longings, of that love and of those conversations !’ What is suggested here (by the plural number in ‘appreciations’, ‘longings’ and ‘conversations’ and the singular number in ‘love’) is that though the appreciation and the rest (which aroused the love) have been many