काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

206 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA समुच्यतेस्य भूपालमौलिमालामहामणेः । सुदुर्लभं वचोबाणैस्तेजो यस्य विभाव्यते ॥२०६॥ अत्र वचःशब्देन गीःशब्दो लक्ष्यते । अत्र खलु न केवलं पूर्वपदम् यावदुत्तरपदमपि पर्यायपरिवर्तनं न क्षमते । जलध्यादा- वुत्तरपदमेव वडवानलादौ पूर्वपदमेव ॥ (7) [‘The meaning having to be guessed’]— ‘Kimuchyate……vachobāṇaiḥ...vībhāvyate.’ ‘What is to be said to this central crest-jewel of kings !— whose splendour is such as is difficult even for the gods to attain !’ Here the term ‘vachaḥ’ (in ‘vachobāṇaiḥ’) is meant to indicate its synonym ‘gīḥ’ (which gives the word ‘gīr- bāṇa’,—which is one of the names of the gods), and thus the meaning of the compound ‘vachobāṇaiḥ’ is such as can be ‘guessed’ with difficulty]. In fact the compound word ‘gīrbāṇa’ (as a name of the gods) is such that it is not only the first term of the com- pound that does not admit of being replaced by a synonym; the second term also does not admit of being so replaced [i.e. just as we cannot have ‘vachobāṇa’ so also we cannot have ‘gīḥ-śara’]. As compound names where the second term does not admit of being replaced by a synonym, we have such words as ‘jaladhi’ (ocean) and the like (which become entirely altered in sense by being trans- formed into ‘jaladhara’, which means cloud); and as ins- tances of compound names in which the first term does not admit of being replaced by a synonym, we have such words as ‘vāḍavānala’ (the submarine fire) [which, when changed into ‘aśvānala’ does not mean the same thing].