काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

342 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA आदाय चापमचलं कृत्वाहीनं गुणं विषमदृष्टिः । यश्चित्रमच्युतशरो लक्ष्यमभाङ्क्षीन्नमस्तस्मै ॥३८३॥ इत्यादावेकदेशविवर्तिरूपकश्लेषव्यतिरेकसमासोक्तिविरोध- त्वमुचितं न तु श्लेषत्वम् ॥ शब्दश्लेष इति चोच्यते अर्थालंकारमध्ये च लक्ष्यते इति कोयं नयः । किं च वैचित्र्यमलंकार इति य एव कविप्रतिभासं- ‘The evening (girl) is red in the atmosphere (full of love), and the Day (her lover) goes before it (is present before her), and yet such is the curious way of Destiny that the two never meet;’— (d) ‘Ādāya chāpamachalaṁ kṛtvāhīnaṁ guṇaṁ viṣamadṛṣṭiḥ, yashchitramachyutasharo lakṣyamabhāṅkṣīnnamastasmai’. ‘Having taken up the bow immovable (in the shape of the Himālaya mountain), putting to it a string worn out (in the shape of the lord of serpents), and having an arrow which never moved (in the shape of Viṣṇu), the Being with deranged vision (the Three-eyed God, Shiva), shattered his target in a strange manner;—salutation to Him!’;—the Figure that is predominant is, not ‘Pun’, but respectively, (a) Partial Metaphor, (b) Dissimilitude based upon Pun, (c) Modal Metaphor and (d) Contradiction. Then again, the objector calls the Figure in question ‘Verbal Pun’, and yet he includes it among ‘Ideal Figures;’ —what sort of principle is this? Further, a Figure of Speech is only a form of imagery or fancy,—and this imagery can belong to only that (word or idea) which forms the final goal of the poet’s imagi- nation; and it is only this (Word or Idea) that forms the substratum of the Figure of Speech. [So that it cannot be right to say that all Pun is Ideal, as the objector has