[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Arts, Poetics, Architecture & Lexicography](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art) › [Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara) › [Treatises on rasa, the erotic sentiment and heroines](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa) › [Śṛṅgāraprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt) › 6.p1.8 # Shringaraprakasha 6.p1.8 English (machine translation) 6.p1.8 - **Language:** English ### [6.p1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1.8) In “one should sacrifice with an animal”, “one should yoke the chestnut \[horse\]”, “he ties the brindled cow”, and the like, however, because the animals and the like are subordinate factors existing for the sake of acts like sacrifice, what is enjoined is precisely what is qualified, possessing number and possessing qualities; thus both number and quality are intended to be expressed. The practice of the Teacher \[Pāṇini\] also indicates this very point: in the principal, number is not intended to be expressed, but in a subordinate factor, it is intended to be expressed. To explain: in the rule “of those having the same form, one remains” (sarūpāṇāmekaśeṣaḥ), when the word ‘remainder’ (śeṣa) is taken in an objective sense, the substance expressed by the word ‘remainder’ has primacy, because it undergoes cultivation which is expressed by the explanation of its correctness. Therefore, because what operates for its own sake has its number unintended, the use of the word ‘one’ is made: “one remains”. This is the indicatory sign that the number of the principal is not intended to be expressed. Likewise, in “a word ending in a case-affix is compounded with a word ending in a case-affix”, because number is admitted \[as a subordinate factor\], a compound of many does not occur, as in mahatkaṣṭaṃ śritaḥ (“undergone great hardship”). For here it is explained that an aggregate delimited by a particular arrangement of parts of such a kind is correct. Therefore, in the procedure of importing refinement to the aggregate through the means of referring to the parts, the aggregate is the principal; the parts that operate toward it operate by adopting the specific numbers mentioned. But where another effort is initiated, there \[a compound\] takes place even of many, as in “time-words with a measure”; by virtue of the plural number, \[we get\] dvyahnajātaḥ (“born two days ago”). And as in the rules for bahuvrīhi and dvandva, by the explicit mention of ‘many’ (aneka), \[we get\] mattabahumātaṅgaṃ vanam (“a forest with many wild elephants”) and dhavakhadirapalāśāḥ (“dhava, khadira, and palāśa trees”). Sometimes, however, even in a subordinate factor number is not intended to be expressed, where by its non-intention the achievement of another principal takes place. As in “the object is what is most desired by the agent” (karturīpsitatamaṃ karma). For here, if the agent, introduced to delimit the desire that delimits the designation of ‘object’ (karman) being enjoined for what is most desired, were understood as adhering to the singular number, then a thing desired by many would be excluded from connection with the designation ‘object’. - [Previous: 6.p1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1.7) - [Next: 6.p1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1.9) - [Up: 6.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1) ## Linked texts (1) - [Śṛṅgāraprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa.6.p1.8) — Bhoja, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.srngaraprakasa~en-mt.6.p1.8) · Pramāṇa