काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

318 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA अभङ्गश्लेषेण यथा अहो केनेदृशी बुद्धिर्दारुणा तव निर्मिता । त्रिगुणा श्रूयते बुद्धिर्न तु दारुमयी क्वचित् ॥३५३॥ “If you behave satisfactorily towards women, then you are wise”.—“What intelligent person does what is agreeable to his enemies?” [This reply being based upon the pun involved in breaking up the term ‘nārīṇāṁ’, spoken by the first speaker in the sense of ‘towards women’, into two terms ‘na-arīṇāṁ’, ‘not to enemies’]—“Then you are not a benefactor of the weaker sex.” [This rejoinder takes the term ‘vāmānāṁ’, used by the second speaker in the sense ‘of enemies’, in the sense ‘of the weaker sex’.]— “Would it be proper to destroy the good of a person known to be weak?” [This answer is based upon the term ‘hitakṛt’, used by the former speaker in the sense of hitaṁ karoti ‘benefactor, one who does good’, being taken in the sense of hitaṁ kṛntati’, ‘one who destroys the good’]. —“Whence can there be any power in you to bring about the destruction of what is desired by Indra?” [This reply is based on the expression ‘balābhāvaprasiddhātmanaḥ’, used by the former speaker in the sense of ‘one known to be weak’, being taken by the latter in the sense of ‘one who is known by his killing of the demon Bala, i.e., Indra’.] The following is an example of Equivoque based upon Paronomasia, not involving the breaking up of words. ‘Aho kenedṛśī buddhirdāruṇā tava nirmitā· Triguṇā śrūyate buddhirna tu dārumayī kvachit’. “Oh! By whom has this Intelligence of yours been made so cruel?”—“Intelligence is known to consist of the three attributes, and never of wood”. [The reply