काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 183 अत्र भवानीपतिशब्दो भवान्याः पत्यन्तरे प्रतीतिं करोति । यथा वा गोरपि यद्वाहनतां प्राप्तवतः सोपि गिरिसुतासिंहः । सविधे निरहंकारः पायाद्वः सोम्बिकारमणः ॥१६८॥ अत्राम्बिकारमण इति विरुद्धां धियमुत्पादयति ॥ ‘श्रुतिकटु’ समासगतं यथा is quiescent through his mercy on all living creatures ; the son of that God, Skanda, also, was the source of joy to the universe by reason of his having killed the haughty demon Tāraka (and hence he also could not be feared) ; but how is it that he did not think of myself, the disciple of the God Śiva, and as dear to him as his son Skanda ?’ Here the word ‘bhavānīpati’, literally meaning ‘the husband of Bhava’s wife’ (‘bhavānī’ meaning the ‘wife of Bhava’ another name for Shiva,) has the repugnant signification that the Goddess had a husband other than Shiva, the God spoken of. Another example— ‘Gorapi.......................ambikāramaṇaḥ’ ‘May Ambikā’s husband protect you,—he near whom even Gaurī’s lion becomes freed from all ill-feeling towards the bull that is used as a conveyance by that God.’ Here the word ‘ambikāramaṇaḥ’ has a repugnant signification (its literal meaning ‘one who enjoys the company of ‘Ambikā’, Mother). [Having dealt with the defects found in compounds only, the author proceeds to deal with the other defects described before, the ‘disagreeable to the ear’ and the rest which are held to occur in single words as also in compounds.] But he gives an example of only one of them, the ‘disagreeable to the ear,’ as occurring in a compound—