काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

CHAPTER X 451 न चैष रूपकं प्रथमातिशयोक्तिर्वा तत्र वस्तुतो भ्रमस्या- भावात् इह च, अर्थानुगमनेन संज्ञायाः प्रवृत्तेः तस्य स्पष्टमेव प्रतिपन्नत्वात् । उदाहरणम्— कपाले मार्जारः पय इति करान् लेढि शशिनस् तरुच्छिद्रप्रोतान् बिसमिति करी संकलयति । रतान्ते तल्पस्थान् हरति वनिताप्यंशुकमिति प्रभामत्तश्चन्द्रो जगदिदमहो विप्लवयति ॥५५२॥ आक्षेप उपमानस्य प्रतीपमुपमेयता । तस्यैव यदि वा कल्प्या तिरस्कारनिबन्धनम् ॥ १३३ ॥ a cognition (idea) of it as the ‘ other ’,-i. e., the thing not forming the subject of the statement,—it is the figure ‘ Illusion ’. This is not the same as either Metaphor or Hyperbole ; as in these latter there is no real illusion, while in the present instance, the illusion is manifest, as is clear from the fact that the name ‘ Illusion ’ is applied to it in the literal sense. ‘ When the cat sees the moon’s rays in the bowl, it mistakes them for milk and proceeds to lap it ; when the elephant sees them entering through the interstices in the trees, it mistakes them for the lotus-stalk, and proceeds to collect them ; when the woman sees them on her bed, at the end of dalliance, she mistakes them for her cloth and proceeds to pick them up :—Thus the moon, madden- ed with his resplendence, deludes the whole world ’. 132. LIV. Pratīpa—The Converse. (a) Where there is discarding of the object com- pared to, or (b) where that object itself is treated, with a view to its being condemned, as the object compared,— it is the Converse. 133.