काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

266 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA वाच्यवशाद्यथा मातङ्गाः किमु वल्गितैः किमफलैराडम्बरैर्जम्बुकाः सारङ्गा महिषा मदं व्रजथ किं शून्येषु शरा न के । कोपाटोपसमुद्भटोत्कटसटाकोटेरिभारेः पुरः सिन्धुध्वानिनि हुङ्कृते स्फुरति यत् तद्गर्जितं गर्जितम् ॥२९९॥ अत्र सिंहे वाच्ये परुषाः शब्दाः ॥ प्रकरणवशाद्यथा ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── breasts bespattered with the muddy blood that she has drunk and vomited.’ [The passion of disgust being suggested here, the harshness of the words becomes a source of excellence.] (d). The following is an example where the defect (of Harshness) becomes an excellence by virtue of the character of the thing described.— ‘Mātaṅgāḥ kimu valgitaiḥ kimaphalairāḍambarairjambukāḥ Sāraṅgā mahiṣā madam vrajata kim shūnyeṣu shūrā na ke Kopāṭopasamudbhaṭotkaṭasaṭākoṭeribhāreḥ puraḥ Sindhudhvānini huṅkṛte sphurati yat tad garjitam garjitam’ ‘O elephants, what of your cries ! O jackals, what of these useless struttings ! O deer and buffaloes, wherefore are you so proud ? Who is not brave, in solitude ? Roaring would be real roaring, only in the presence of the ocean-like rumble of the lion with his name ruffled in anger.’ In the latter half of this verse, the lion being the thing described, the harsh-sounding words are a source of excellence. (e) The following is an example of a defect becoming an excellence, by virtue of the context or occasion.