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134 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA एवमनेन प्रकारेण अवान्तरभेदगणनेतिप्रभूततरा गणना । तथाहि—शृङ्गारस्यैव भेदप्रभेदगणनायामानन्त्यम् । का गणना तु सर्वेषाम् । संकलनेन पुनरस्य ध्वनेस्त्रयो भेदाः । व्यङ्ग्यस्य त्रिरूपत्वात् । तथाहि—किंचिद्वाच्यतां सहते किंचित्त्वन्यथा । तत्र वाच्यतासहम् अविचित्रं विचित्रं चेति । अविचित्रं वस्तुमात्रं विचित्रं त्वलंकार- रूपम् । यद्यपि प्राधान्येन तदलंकार्यं तथापि ब्राह्मणश्रमण- न्यायेन तथोच्यते । रसादिलक्षणस्त्वर्थः स्वप्नेपि न वाच्यः । ‘Thus’,—in the manner described,—by counting all the sub-divisions,—the number becomes very large; e. g. the varieties of the Erotic Passion itself are endless,— not to speak of others. Thus, briefly, of Suggestive Poetry there are three varieties, there being three kinds of what is suggested (according as it happens to be a Fact or a Figure or Passion, Feeling and the rest);—of these again, some (i. e. Figure and Fact) are such as can be expressed also, while others (e. g. Passion and the rest) can never be expressed. Of those that can be also expressed, some are fanciful, while others are not fanciful; what is not fanciful is the mere fact, and what is fanciful is the Figure.—Though, in this connection the Figure (when suggested) is really what is itself embellished (and hence cannot be called a ‘figure’, ‘embellishment,’ in the exact sense of the term), yet it is called by the name of ‘figure,’ on the same principle as the Brāhmaṇa, who has become a mendicant and thereby has ceased to be a real Brāhmaṇa, is still called a ‘Brāhmaṇa’ in view of his having formerly been a Brāhmaṇa. Passion and the rest, however, cannot be regarded even in a dream to