Shringaraprakasha 7.p1.27

7.p1.27

akṣa śuktītyasya saṃyogākṣarasya dūrasamityatra rephasya ca cūrṇanimittaṃ cūrṇakaṃ | vākyavicchedo'pi caturdhā - vākyasambhedo, vākyāsambhedo, vākyāsambhedo, vākyānyathātvaṃ, vākyāsamāptiḥ, vākyānuñcāraṇamiti, teṣu vākyasambhedo yathā--- diṅmātaṅgaghaṭāvibhaktacaturāghāṭau mahī sādhyate | siddhā sāpi vadanta eva hi vayaṃ romāñcitāḥ paśyata | viprāya pratipādyate kimaparaṃ rāmāya tasmai namo | yasmādāvibabhūtkathādbhutamidaṃ yatraiva cāstaṃ gatam || atra vadanta eva hi vayaṃ romāñcitāḥ paśyateti vākyasaṃbhodo vakturbhāvakatvena guṇaviśeṣavijñānātiśayaprakāśanaṃ pratipādayati | vākyānyathātvaṃ yathā---- sahabhṛtyagaṇaṃ sabāndhavaṃ sahamitraṃ sabalaṃ sahānugam | svabalena nihanti saṃyuge na cirātpāṇḍusutaḥ suyodhanam || atra pāṇḍusutaṃ suyodhana iti vaktavye pāṇḍusutaḥ suyodhanamiti bhānumatīvirahavaimanasyaprayuktasya suyodhanavākyasyānyathātvamanucyamānaṃ bhāvino'rthasya tathātvamavabodhayati | vākyāsamāptiryathā --- tvaṃ jīvitaṃ tvamasi me hṛdayaṃ dvitīyaṃ tvaṃ kaumudī nayanayoramṛtaṃ tvamaṅge | ityādibhiḥ priyaśatairanurudhya mugdhāṃ tāmeva śāntamathavā kimataḥ pareṇa || atra śāntamathavā kimataḥ pareṇeti vāsantīvākyāsamāptiḥ suhṛdviṣaye nāmaṅgalaṃ vaktāvyamiti pratipādayati | vākyānuñcāraṇaṃ yathā---- akṣatrārikṛtābhimanyunidhanaprodbhūtatīvrakrudhaḥ kīrṇābāṣpakaṇaiḥ patanti dhanuṣi vrīḍājaḍā dṛṣṭayaḥ | pārthasyākṛtaśākṣavapratikṛterantaśśucā muhyato hā vatseti giraḥ sphuranti na punarniryānti kaṇṭhādvahiḥ ||

The short measure (cūrṇaka) is caused by abbreviation for the conjunct consonant in 'akṣa-śuktī' and for the letter 'r' in 'dūrasam'. Sentence-division (vākyaviccheda) is also of four kinds: sentence-blending (vākyasaṃbheda), sentence-alteration (vākyānyathātva), sentence-incompletion (vākyāsamāpti), and sentence-non-utterance (vākyānuccāraṇa). Among these, sentence-blending is as follows: / 'The earth, whose four boundaries are marked by herds of cardinal elephants, is being conquered; / indeed, even as we speak of it as accomplished, look, our hairs stand on end! / It is being bestowed upon a brahmin. What more? Homage to that Rāma / from whom this wonderful tale arose and wherein it sank away.' / Here, the blending of the sentence 'look, our hairs stand on end even as we speak' conveys the speaker's extraordinary realization of distinguished qualities by being appreciative. Sentence-alteration is as follows: / 'Along with his retinue of servants, with his kin, with his friends, with his army, with his followers, / the son of Pāṇḍu, by his own might, will slay Suyodhana in battle before long.' / Here, where one should have said 'Suyodhana [will slay] the son of Pāṇḍu', the alteration of Suyodhana's speech—caused by depression through separation from Bhānumatī—as 'the son of Pāṇḍu [will slay] Suyodhana', though unsaid, indicates the truth of the future event. Sentence-incompletion is as follows: / '“You are my life, you are my second heart, you are the moonlight for my eyes, you are nectar for my body”— / by hundreds of such endearing words having flattered that innocent girl, her very self—alas, enough! Or rather, what beyond this?' / Here, the incompletion of Vāsantī's sentence as 'alas, enough! Or rather, what beyond this?' conveys that in the matter of a friend, inauspicious things should not be spoken. Sentence-non-utterance is as follows: / 'His eyes, dull with shame and shed with teardrops, their fierce rage provoked by Abhimanyu's death wrought by non-warriors, fall upon his bow; / as Pārtha faints from inner sorrow, his enemy's retaliation still unachieved, the words “Ah, my child!” tremble, yet do not issue forth from his throat.'