Shringaraprakasha 7.p1.22

7.p1.22

asato vivakṣā yathā---samudraḥ kuṇḍikā, vindhyo vardhaitakamiti | sato'pyavivakṣā yathā---anudarā kanyā, alomikā ejaketi | sadalatorvivakṣā yathā--tadidamapamedhodayaṃ varṣaṃ,socchvāsaṃ maraṇamiti | sadasatoravivakṣā yathā---śelādhirājatanayā na yayau na tasthāviti || stutyā nindāvivakṣā yathā--- guṇānāmeva daurātmyāddhuri dhuryo niyujyate | asañjātakiṇaskandhaḥ sukhaṃsvapitigaurgalī || nindayā kastutivivakṣā yathā--- capalo nirdayāścāsau janaḥ kiṃ tena me sakhi | āgaḥ pramārjanāyaiva cāṭavo yena śikṣitāḥ ||vidhinā niṣedhavivakṣā yathā---- gaccha gacchasi cetkānta panthānaḥ santu te śivāḥ | mamāpi janma tatraiva bhūyādyatra gato bhavān || niṣedhena vidhivivakṣā yathā--- māgaccha pramadāpriya priyāśatairbhūyastvamukto mayā bālā prāṅgaṇamāgatena bhavatā prāptanotyavasthāntaram | kiñcāsyāḥ kucabhārapīḍanaparairyatnaprabandhairapi truṭyatkañcukajākairanudinaṃ nissūtramasmadgṛham || evamiyamanekadhā vivakṣā viprathate tadeṣa lokikavādaḥ ---- *('apāre kāvyasaṃsāre’iti pāṭhānataram.)asminnapāre saṃsāre kavirekaḥ prajāpatiḥ | yathāsmai rocate viśvanaṃ tathedaṃ parivartate || api ca--- ṭhiamaṭhṭhiaṃbadīsai a ṭhiaṃpijahaṭhṭhiaṃvapaḍibhāi | jahasaṃcaṭṭiaṃbavajasai sukaīṇaimāopaaīo || kiñca--- kkacitsvalpe'pyarthe pracuravanaireva racanā kkacidvastu spharaṃ katipayadairpitarasam | yathā vācyaṃ śabdāḥ kkacidapi tulā.yāmiva dhṛtā stribhiḥ klapairevaṃ kavivṛṣabhasandarbhaniyamaḥ ||

The intention to convey what is nonexistent is as in: "The ocean is a small pot; the Vindhya mountain is an ant-hill." The absence of intention to convey what is even existent is as in: "a girl with no belly" (*anudarā kanyā*), "a hairless ewe" (*alomikā eḍakā*). The intention to convey both existent and nonexistent is as in: "This rain without cloud-formation, a death accompanied by breathing." The absence of intention to convey both existent and nonexistent is as in: "The daughter of the king of mountains neither went nor stayed." The intention to convey censure through praise is as in: / "Merely through the wickedness of [possessing] good qualities is the draft-ox yoked to the burden; / with neck bearing no calluses, the ox-in-the-alley sleeps comfortably." / The intention to convey praise through censure is as in: / "Fickle and heartless is that person! What is he to me, friend? / By whom flattering words were studied solely to wipe away offense." / The intention to convey prohibition through prescription is as in: / "Go, if you are going, beloved; may your roads be auspicious! / May my rebirth also take place right there, wherever you have gone!" / The intention to convey prescription through prohibition is as in: / "Do not go, lover of wanton women! Again and again have you been told by me through hundreds of sweet words; / when you enter the courtyard, the young girl undergoes another state; / moreover, through her continual efforts to press her heavy breasts, / with the seam-threads of her bodice bursting each day, our house has run out of thread." / Thus does this speaker's intention branch out manifoldly; hence this popular saying: / "In this boundless cycle of mundane existence, the poet is the sole creator; / just as it pleases him, so does this all transform." / And moreover: / "What exists is seen as nonexistent, and what exists also appears as though nonexistent; / as it is described, so does it become: such is the nature of good poets." / Furthermore: / "In some place, even with a small meaning, the composition is with abundant words; / in another place, a vast matter has its rasa brought out by a few words; / in another place, words are weighed as if in a balance according to what is to be expressed; / such is the rule of composition of preeminent poets through these three modes."