काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

320- KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA छेकवृत्तिगतो द्विधा ।। छेकाः विदग्धाः । वृत्तिर्नियतवर्णगतो रसविषयो व्यापारः । गत इति छेकानुप्रासो वृत्यनुप्रासश्च ।। किं तयोः स्वरूपम् इत्याह— सोनेकस्य सकृत्पूर्वः ।। अनेकस्य अर्थात् व्यञ्जनस्य सकृदेकवारं सादृश्यं छेकानुप्रासः । उदाहरणम् ततोरुणपरिस्पन्दमन्दीकृतवपुः शशी । दध्रे कामपरिक्षामकामिनीगण्डपाण्डुताम् ।।३५५।। It is of two kinds,—as pertaining to (a) chheka (experts) and (b) vṛtti (diction). ‘Chheka’—Experts ; ‘vṛtti’—that function of letters which affects the delineation of Passion ;—‘pertaining to’ these,—i.e., the two kinds of Alliteration are (a) ‘chhekānu- prāsa’ and (b) Vṛttyanuprāsa.’ [These are merely fanciful names, as is clear from the definitions that follow, according to which the two kinds may be called (a) ‘Isolated’ and (b) ‘Complex’ Alliteration.] The author states the characteristics of these two kinds of Alliteration.— The former is the single repetition of several. When there is a single repetition of ‘several’—consona- nts, it is ‘Chhekānuprāsa’, ‘Isolated Alliteration.’ Example— ‘Tato’ ruṇaparispandamandīkṛtavapuḥ shashī Dadhre kāmaparikṣāmakāminīgaṇḍapāṇḍutām’. ‘The Moon, having his body eclipsed by the advent of the Sun, bore the paleness of the cheek of a woman emaciated by the pangs of love.’ [Here we have ‘single repetition of the consonants (a) ‘n-d’ and (b) ‘ṇ-ḍ’]