Shringaraprakasha 8.p1.3
English (machine translation) 8.p1.3
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8.p1.3
[…] / […].
Here, while describing beauty, he incidentally indicates the six tastes, and whether they are desired or not desired. The second is as follows:
"Sluggish with recent opening, unable to face the radiance of the jewel lamps, / heavy with its own movement, with drops of water produced by yawns and stretchings of the limbs, / wishing to leave the couch that has the mark of the serpent [Śeṣa] and the pillow of the round horizon, / red from the interruption of sleep, slightly closed—may Hari's gaze protect you for a long time!"
Here, in the *Mudrārākṣasa*, when the Kaumudī festival has been forbidden by Cāṇakya and Rākṣasa is scheming, the bard, reciting auspicious morning verses, secretly informs Candragupta that the autumn has arrived.
8.2. Now, logical [expectancy] (*naiyāyikī*). Where a previously spoken sentence is adjusted and applied to another meaning by clever speakers and the like through conjecture (*ūha*), they consider that conjectural logical [expectancy] (*ūhanaiyāyikī*). As follows: Kālidāsa, being asked by Vikramāditya, "What is the lord of Kuntala doing?", said:
"Because of slight smiling, as if washed by luster; because of budded eyes, with blue lotus ear-ornaments clearly visible— / having laid his burdens upon you, the lord of the Kuntalas drinks the nectar-fragrant faces of his beloveds."
Vikramāditya, having conjectured from this very [verse], replied:
"Let the lord of the Kuntalas, having laid his burdens upon me, drink the nectar-fragrant faces of his beloveds!"
Where words are rearranged according to the order of sense when connection is impossible through the order of reading, that is inverted logical [expectancy] (*viparyayanaiyāyikī*). As follows:
"Feeding on fallen leaves of trees by oneself is said to be the highest stage of asceticism; / she, however, cast aside even that; therefore those who know the past call that sweet-speaking lady 'Aparṇā' ('leafless')."
Here, the words are construed inverted as: "therefore those who know the past call that sweet-speaking lady Aparṇā." Where, in the use of words of equivalent sense, modifier and modified are construed by changing the grammatical case, that is case-variation logical [expectancy] (*vipariṇāmanaiyāyikī*).
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