काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 389 वामेनात्र वटस्तमध्वगजनः सर्वात्मना सेवते न च्छायापि परोपकारकरणे मार्गस्थितस्यापि मे ॥४४७॥ क्वचिदंशेष्वध्यारोपेण । यथा सोऽपूर्वो रसनाविपर्ययविधिः तत् कर्णयोश्चापलं दृष्टिः सा मदविस्मृतस्वपरदिक् किं भूयसोक्तेन वा । सर्वं विस्मृतवानसि भ्रमर हे यद्वारणोद्याप्यसौ अन्तःशून्यकरो निषेव्यत इति भ्रातः क एष ग्रहः ॥४४८॥ left of the road, is attended by all pedestrians, while to me, though I am standing on the road, does not belong even shade enough for rendering help to others.’ [What is implied here is the condition of a lowborn person whose gifts have been refused by a qualified recipient : and the imposition of this upon the expressed description of the tree is essential, since the ideas described can never belong to any such entity as the tree.] In still other cases, there is only partial imposition ; for instance, in the following verse— ‘ That curious process whereby the tongue was re- versed ; the fickleness of ears ; vision incapacitated by intoxication to discriminate between himself and others ;— what is the need for saying more ?—All this you have forgotten, O brother black bee ! and you still stick to this elephant, with an empty trunk [ hand ] ;—whence this peculiar attachment ? [ Here what is implied is the relation between an un- appreciating master and a devoted servant ; and this is imposed upon the case described, of the elephant and the black bee]. The imposition here is only partial ; as ‘ the reversal of the tongue ’ and ‘ emptiness of the trunk ’ are not such circumstances as would justify the abandoning of the elephant by the bee ; it is only the ‘ fickleness of the