काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER, X 353 अवितथमनोरथपथप्रथनेषु प्रगुणगरिमगीतश्रीः । सुरतरुसदृशः स भवानभिलषणीयः क्षितीश्वरो न कस्य ॥ ३९५॥ गाम्भीर्यगरिमा तस्य सत्यं गङ्गाभुजङ्गवत् । दुरालोकः स समरे निदाघाम्बररत्नवत् ॥३९६॥ ‘ The king who held this world in sway through the four expedients, just as Viṣṇu does by his four arms,— the expedients and the arms both being ‘atyāyata’ (the expedients efficient, and the arms long), subjugators of the wicked, glorious, resplendent and infallible, the abode of the sportings of the Goddess of Wealth.’ [Here the simile lies in ‘bhujairiva’, which is a ‘nitya’ compound does not drop the case-termination of the first term.] (4) [ The Implied Simile, in a Compound ]— ‘ Avitathamanorathapathaprathaneṣu praguṇa garimagītaśrīḥ Suratarusadṛśaḥ sa bhavān abhilaṣaṇīyaḥ kṣitīśvaro na kasya ’ ‘ O King, who is there by whom you are not sought after?—You who, having your great excellence sung as lying in the opening of the way for desires that never remain unfulfilled, are similar to the Celestial Tree.’ (5) and (6) [The Directly Expressed and the Implied Simile, in nominal Affixes]— ‘ Gāmbhīryagarimā tasya satyaṁgaṅgābhujaṅgavat Durālokaḥ sa samare nidāghāmbararatnavat ’ ‘ The profundity of his depth is like that of the Gaṅgā’s Lover (Ocean) ; and in battle he is hard to look at, like the summer Sun.’ [In the first sentence, the similitude is expressed directly by the affix ‘ vati ’ in ‘ bhujaṅgavat ’, which is used in the sense of ‘iva’, like ;—the term ‘ bhujaṅgavat ’ being equivalent to ‘ bhujaṅgasya iva ’ ;—and in