काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER VII 297 इत्यत्र त्रिपुररिपुप्रभावातिशयस्य करुणोऽङ्गम् । तस्य तु शृङ्गारः । तथापि न करुणे विश्रान्तिरिति तस्याङ्गत्तैव । अथवा प्राक् यथा कामुक आचरति स्म तथा शराग्निरिति शृङ्गारपोषि- तेन करुणेन मुख्य एवार्थ उपोद्बल्यते । उक्तं हि ‘गुणः कृतात्मसंस्कारः प्रधानं प्रतिपद्यते । प्रधानस्योपकारे हि तथा भूयसि वर्तते ॥’ इति ॥ guilty lover of theirs,’—the principal object of delineation is the superior majesty of Tripura’s enemy (Shiva) ; and to this is subservient the Pathetic, to which latter the Erotic is subservient ; and even though in view of the Erotic being subservient to it, the Pathetic might be regarded as the predominant factor,—yet it has to be regarded as only a subordinate factor in view of the fact that the delineation of the Pathetic does not form the end of the describer. Or, the sense may be that—‘ the fire of the arrow behaved in the same manner as a guilty lover has done ’,—wherein the principal factor (greatness of Shiva) becomes heightened by the Pathetic as strengthened by the Erotic [so that in this sense also the Pathetic is not the end arrived at.] In support of our view, we have the following state- ment—‘ It is only when it has undergone a purificatory process that the subordinate factor approaches its Princi- pal, and it is only thus that it tends to help that principal.’ In this connection it has to be borne in mind that there can be no ‘incompatibility’ between one Passion and another,—when we understand Passion to be what it has been described to be above (under Ch. IV) ; nor can there