Shringaraprakasha 9.p1.24

9.p1.24

tataḥ, anasūyā --- taṃ nau sakhyāḥ prabhavamavagaccha| tenojjhitāyāśśarīrasaṃvardhanādibhistāta kāśyapo'sya pitā| rājā --- ujjhitaśabdena janitaṃ me kautūhalam| āmūlācchrotumicchāmi| anasūyā --- śṛṇotvāryaḥ| purā kila tasya rājarṣeḥ ugre tapasi vartamānasya kimapi jātaśaṃkairdevaiḥ menakānāmāpsarā niyamavidhnakāriṇī preritā| rājā --- astyetadanyasamādhibhīrutvaṃ devānām| tatastataḥ| anasūyā --- tato vasantodārasamaye tasyā unmādayitṛkaṃ rūpaṃ prekṣya, (ityardhokte lajjayā viramati|) rājā --- parastādavagamyata eva| sarvadhā apsarassambhavaivaiṣā| iti| ādau yatkrodhajananamante harṣavivardhanam| tatpriyaṃ vacanaṃ jñeyamāśīrvādasamanvitam || 12.227 yathā ratnāvalyāṃ, caturthe'ṅke, vidūṣakaḥ -- apavāryaindrajālikamāha -- āḥ dāsyāḥ putra, indrajālika, kimetairdevairapsaromiśca darśitaiḥ| yadi te anena parituṣṭena kāryaṃ taddarśaya sāgarikām| tata etadvacanānantaramagnisambhramādutthitaḥ rājā --- na vasubhūtyādayaāvṛtā vahninā| etāni kāvyasya vibhūṣaṇāni prāyaścatuṣṣaṣṭirudāhṛtāni| prabandhaśobhānakaraṇāya tajjñaissamyakprayojyāni yathā rasāni || udāhṛtā nāṭakanāṭikānāmiyaṃ catuṣṣaṣṭicatuṣṭayī yā| rasāvirodhena nibandhanīyā kathāsu kāvyeṣu ca sā mahadbhiḥ || bhaktīrdvādaśatāḥ pṛthakpṛthagimāssañcintyā śabdārthayo- rasāhityasya ca śabdaśāsanavidā kāryaḥ prabandhe śramaḥ| kīrtiryāvadanaśvarī hi viduṣāṃ rodogṛhaṃ gāhate brāhmaṃ lokalalāmadhāma tadamī tāvatkilādhyāsate ||

"Then, Anasūyā: 'Know him to be the progenitor of our friend. Her father, father Kāśyapa, is [so] because of nurturing her body and other such acts when she was abandoned by him.'
The King: 'Curiosity has been aroused in me by the word "abandoned". I wish to hear from the beginning.'
Anasūyā: 'Let the noble one listen. Long ago, it is said, when that royal sage was engaged in austere asceticism, the gods, seized by some apprehension, sent an Apsaras named Menakā to cause an obstacle to his ascetic discipline.'
The King: 'This fear among the gods regarding the meditation of others does exist. What next?'
Anasūyā: 'Then, seeing her intoxicating form during the generous spring season...'—(having spoken this half, she stops in shame).
The King: 'The rest is indeed understood. In every way she is born of an Apsaras.'

That speech which causes anger at first and increases joy in the end,
endowed with a benediction, is to be known as Pleasant Speech.

12.227 As in the Ratnāvalī, in the fourth act, the Jester, setting aside the magician, says: "Ah, you son of a slave, magician! What is the use of showing these gods and Apsarases? If you have business with this satisfied [king], show Sāgarikā!" Then, immediately after this statement, the King, rising in agitation from the fire: "Are not Vasubhūti and the others surrounded by fire?"

These sixty-four ornaments of poetry, roughly speaking, have been illustrated;
they are to be suitably employed by experts to produce beauty in a composition, according to the rasas.

This quadruple set of sixty-four which has been illustrated for the nāṭaka and the nāṭikā
should be composed by the great in stories and poems without contradiction to rasa.

Having considered these twelve divisions individually of linguistic sound and meaning,
a scholar who knows the rules of linguistic sound should undertake labor in poetic composition, because of the literary conjunction;
for as long as their imperishable fame enters the mansion of heaven and earth,
so long indeed do these [scholars] inhabit the Brahma-abode, the crown ornament of the worlds.