काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 277 ताला जाअंति गुणा जाला दे सहिअएहिँ घेप्पन्ति । रइकिरणानुग्गहिआईं होन्ति कमलाईं कमलाईं ।।३१५।। जितेन्द्रियत्वं विनयस्य कारणं गुणप्रकर्षो विनयादवाप्यते । गुणप्रकर्षेण जनोनुरज्यते जनानुरागप्रभवा हि संपदः ।।३१६।। पतत्प्रकर्षमपि क्वचिद्गुणः। यथा उदाहृते प्रागप्राप्त-इत्यादौ ।३१७। (b) ‘Tālā jāaṁti guṇāḥ Jālā de sahiaehim gheppanti Raïkiraṇānuggahiāïṁ Honti kamalāïm Kamalāïm. ‘Excellences appear when they are appreciated by really appreciative men. It is only when favoured by the Sun’s rays that lotuses become lotuses’. [Here the second ‘lotuses’ connotes full-grown fragrance, and hence having its expressed meaning transformed it is not a defect]. (c) ‘Jitendriyatvaṁ vinayasya kāraṇaṁ Guṇaprakarṣo vinayādavāpyate Guṇaprakarṣeṇa janonurajyate Janānurāgaprabhavā hi saṁpadaḥ’. Subjugation of the senses leads to humility ; by means of humility is excellence of qualities attained ; through excellent qualities, people become attached ; and prosperity follows from the attachment of the people’. [The ‘humility’ described in the first sentence as the effect, is again referred to in the second sentence as the cause, and so on; and under the circumstances, the use of the same words and expressi- ons only serves to lend force to the idea that what appears as the cause in the following sentence is precisely the same as that spoken of as the effect in the preceding sentence.] ‘Receding Excellence’, is sometimes an excellence ; as in the verse ‘Prāgaprāpta-&c’. (see above, stanza No. 209). [Where the softer language adopted in the fourth line is only right and proper, as it involves the remembrance of the speaker’s preceptor.]