काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 275 अत्र पिहिता इत्यतोनन्तरं 'नैतद्यतः' इत्येतैर्न्यूनैः पदैर्विशेष- बुद्धेरकरणान्न गुणः । उत्तरा प्रतिपत्तिः पूर्वा प्रतिपत्तिं बाधते इति न दोषः ॥ अधिकपदं क्वचिद्गुणः । यथा यद्वञ्चनाहितमतिर्बहुचाटुगर्भं कार्योन्मुखः खलजनः कृतकं ब्रवीति । तत्साधवो न न विदन्ति विदन्ति किंतु कर्तुं वृथा प्रणयमस्य न पारयन्ति ॥३१२॥ अत्र 'विदन्ति' इति द्वितीयमन्ययोगव्यवच्छेदपरम् । After 'pihitā', 'concealed', there should have been the expression—'it is not so, because' and so forth; but this deficiency cannot be regarded as an excellence, because it does not afford any additional suggestion (as is done in the proceeding case); nor can it be regarded as a defect, because inasmuch as the second statement ('she angers not for long') by itself sets aside the first one, there is no real harm done by the omission of the words. 'Redundancy' is sometimes an excellence; e.g. in the following— 'Yadvañcanāhitamatirbahucāṭugarbhaṁ Kāryonmukhaḥ khalajanaḥ kṛtakaṁ bravīti Tatsādhavo na na vidanti vidanti kiṁtu Kartuṁ vṛthā praṇayamasya na pārayanti'. 'The deceitful and cunning way in which evil people tell lies in business,—it is not that the good men do not know it, they do know it, even though they are unable to frustrate their hypocritical attachment'. The second 'vidanti', 'they do know', serves the pur- pose of excluding others from the knowledge in question [and as such the repetition is not a defect].