काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

330 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA एवं वैचित्र्यसहस्रैः स्थितमन्यदुन्नेयम् ॥८३॥ वाच्यभेदेन भिन्ना यद् युगपद्भाषणस्पृशः । श्लिष्यन्ति शब्दाः श्लेषोसावक्षरादिभिरष्टधा ॥ ८४ ॥ 'अर्थभेदेन शब्दभेद': इति दर्शने 'काव्यमार्गे स्वरो न गण्यते' इति च नये वाच्यभेदेन भिन्ना अपि शब्दा यत् युग- पदुच्चारणेन श्लिष्यन्ति भिन्नं स्वरूपमपह्नुवते स श्लेषः । स च वर्णपदलिङ्गभाषाप्रकृतिप्रत्ययविभक्तिवचनानां भेदादष्टधा । bees, discontinuing the destruction of the lotus and ad- orned with blossoming, tawny and wide-expanding mango- groves.' In the above manner, we may deduce the examples of endless varieties of Chime. 83. (IV) When words that are different by reason of the difference in their denotations coalesce (become identified) through the sameness of their pronunciation, it is a case of Coalescence or Pun; and through Letter and other factors, it is of eight kinds. 84. There is the theory that words having different meanings must be regarded as different,—and also that in poetry, accents do not count ; and in accordance with the former theory, even though two words may be the same in their verbal form, yet they are regarded as different and in accordance with the latter, when these words (though differently accented, by reason of their meanings) come to be pronounced in exactly the same manner, they are regarded as ‘coalescing’, i.e., as having their differences undiscernible ;—and when this happens, it is a case of Coalescence, Pun. This Pun is of eight kinds, as based upon the eight different factors of (1) letters, (2) words, (3) gender, (4)