काव्यप्रकाश (आचार्य मम्मट - सम्पूर्ण १० उल्लास सटीक)

14 KĀVYAPRAKĀŚA द्वितीयो गुणः। शुक्लादिना हि लब्धसत्ताक वस्तु विशिष्यते। साध्यः पूर्वापरीभूतावयवः क्रियारूपः। डित्थादिशब्दानामन्त्यबुद्धिनिर्ग्राह्यं संहृतक्रमं स्वरूपं वक्त्रा यदृच्छया डित्थादिष्वर्थेषूपाधित्वेन संनिवेश्यत इति सोयं संज्ञारूपो यदृच्छात्मक इति। imposition upon it of some distinguishing feature ; of these latter two, the former i. e. (e) is the Community,—as has been declared in Vākyapadīya, 'By itself the ox is neither an ox nor a non-ox, it is only by reason of its being related to the community ox that it is called an "ox" [which means that the community is the very essence of the thing denoted];'—the latter [i. e. (f)] is the quality, because when the thing has obtained its essence (become an entity), it is the quality of whiteness and so forth, that serves to distinguish it ;—(d) that which has got to be accom- plished is the action, consisting of a series of steps appearing one after the other ;—lastly, when the speaker, of his own accord, fastens upon a particular object the distinguishing characteristic in the shape of any such haphazard group of letters as 'Dittha', 'Davittha' and so forth, solely as a collocation of letter-sounds ending with the last syllable, and not as occurring in any distinct order of sequence, this group of letters is what forms the name of the object concerned, and is what is classed as a proper noun (b). This is what the author of the Mahābhāṣya (on Pāṇini-sūtra, 'ṛḷk') has declared in the following words—'The denotation of words is fourfold, as signi- fied in the expression, "the ox which is white and named Ḍittha is walking."' As regards the Atomic Dimension and such other Eternal Qualities (as, e.g. the Infinite Dimension, Sound