काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 237 लघुतां भजते निरायतौर्लघुतावान्न पदं नृपश्रियः ॥ इति युक्तम् । काचित्कीर्णा रजोभिर्दिवमनुविदधौ मन्दवक्त्रेन्दुलक्ष्मी- रश्रीकाः काश्चिदन्तर्दिश इव दधिरे दाहमुद्भ्रान्तसत्त्वाः । भ्रमुर्वात्या इवान्याः प्रतिपदमपरा भूमिवत्कम्पमानाः प्रस्थाने पार्थिवानामशिवमिवि पुरो भावि नार्यः शशंसुः ॥ २४९॥ (b) ‘Laghutāṁ bhajate nirāyatiḥ’ (c) ‘Laghutāvanna padannṛpaśriyaḥ’ (fourth line) In the following we have an example of the ‘Violation of the Uniformity’ of number. ‘Kāchit kīrṇā rajobhirdivamanuvidadhau mandavaktrendu- lakṣmīr- Ashrīkāḥ kāśchidantardisha iva dadhire dāhamudbhrān- tasattvāḥ Bhremurvātyā ivānyāḥ pratipadamaparāḥ bhūmivat kam- pamānāḥ Prasthāne pārthivānāmashivamiti puro bhāvi nāryaḥ shashaṁsuḥ.’ ‘At the time of the king’s departure the women fore- boded impending calamity;—while one was beset with menstrual impurity and had her moon-like face bedimmed, thereby resembling the atmosphere (dusty and with a dull moon, a sign of coming trouble),—others, devoid of all splendour and their minds unsteady under the fire of the pangs of separation, resembled the quarters (dull and amazing all animals by their red glare, another inauspicious sign);—others again flitted about like storms (an inauspici- ous sign), and another shook like the earth (earth-quake being a premonition of impending disaster).’ [In the first we have the noun in the Singular number, while throughout the following sentences of the verse, the Plural number is used, and in the last sentence again we find the Singular number.]