काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 179 स्रस्तां नितम्बादवरोपयन्ती पुनः पुनः केसरदामकाञ्चीम् ॥ न्यासीकृतां स्थानविदा स्मरेण द्वितीयमौर्वीमिव कार्मुकस्य ॥१६०॥ अत्र द्वितीयत्वमात्रमुत्प्रेक्ष्यम् । मौर्वीं द्वितीयामिति युक्तः पाठः । यथा वा वपुर्विरूपाक्षमलक्ष्यजन्मता दिगम्बरत्वेन निवेदितं वसु । वरेषु यद्बालमृगाक्षि मृग्यते तदस्ति किं व्यस्तमपि त्रिलोचने॥१६१॥ अत्र ‘अलक्षिता जनिः’ इति वाच्यम् । यथा वा Another example of the same we have in the follow- ing :— ‘Srastaṁ.........dvitīyamaurvīmiva.....................’ ‘She again and again tucked up the girdle of Bakula- flowers which slid down from her waist,—the girdle that resembled the second bow-string kept in her charge by the Love-God who knows the proper place to deposit things’. What is meant to be emphasised here is the fact of the girdle being the second ; [As it is only when it is the second, that there can be any possibility of its being deposited ; —and this fact of its being the second is subordinated in the compound, where ‘dvitīya’, ‘second,’ appears only as a subordinate factor.] The right reading, therefore, would be ‘maurvīṁ dvitīyāmiva’ [where ‘dvitīyām’ standing by itself, the fact of being ‘second’ becomes duly emphasised]. Another example of the same defect :— ‘Vapurvirūpākṣamalakṣyajanmatā.................... .............................................................. trilocane. ‘His body contains disfigured eyes, he is of unknown birth, and his wealth is indicated by his having no dress; O thou fawn-eyed one, is there in Shiva, even singly any of those qualities that one seeks for in a bridegroom ?’