काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 233 अत्र 'गते' इति प्रकान्ते 'याता' इति प्रकृतेः । 'गता निशापि' इति तु युक्तम् । ननु 'नैकं पदं द्विः प्रयोज्यं प्रायेण' इत्यन्यत्र कथितपदं दुष्ट- मिति चेहैवोक्तम् । तत्कथमेकस्य पदस्य द्विःप्रयोगः । उच्यते । उद्देश्यप्रतिनिद्देश्यव्यतिरिक्तो विषय एकपदप्रयोगनिषेधस्य । तद्धति विषये प्रत्युत तस्यैव पदस्य सर्वनाम्नो वा प्रयोगं विना दोषः । तथाहि— ‘ Under the ordination of destiny, the Lord of Night having gone to set, it is well that the Night also has de- parted ; for noble women, there is no better condition and more in keeping with the state of things than this’. The statement, having opened with ‘gata’ (gone), ends with ‘yāta’ (departed) ; thus violating the unifor- mity of the verbal root. The right reading would have been ‘gatā niśāpi’, [which would have been more appropriate in describing the exact following by the wife in the foot-steps of her lord.] Objection :—“ In another work (Vāmana’s sūtras) it has been laid down that no word should be repeated twice, and in this work itself the Repetition of words has been described as a Defect ; how then should it be regarded advisable to repeat the same word gatā’) as suggested ?” Our answer is as follows :—The prohibition of the repeating of a word is meant to apply to cases other than the one where what is spoken of subsequently is meant to be precisely the same that has been mentioned previously ; [as in the case in question the going of the night is meant to be precisely the same as the going of the moon ] where, on the other hand, such identity is meant, it would be a positive defect if the same noun were not repeated, either