Kavyalankarasarasamgraha 5.69

5.69

iha khalu śabdānāmanekārthānāṃ yugapadanekārthavivakṣāyāṃ dvayī gatiḥ arthabhedena tāvacchabdā bhidyante iti bhaṭṭodbhaṭasya siddhāntaḥ /
tatrārthabhedena bhidyamānāḥ śabdāḥ kecittantreṇa prayoktuṃ śakyāḥ kecinna /
yeṣāṃ halasvarasthānaprayatnādīnāṃ sāmyaṃ te tantreṇa prayoktuṃ śakyante /
yatra tu halāmekatvānekatvarūpatvātsvarāṇāṃ codāttatvānudāttatvādinā sthānānāṃ cauṣṭhyadantyauṣṭhatvādinā prayatnānāṃ ca laghutvālaghutvādinā bhedasteṣāṃ tantreṇa prayogaḥ kartumaśakyaḥ /
sādhāraṇarūpatvāttantrasya /
taduktam----
'sādhāraṇaṃ bhavettantram'iti /
evaṃ cāvasthite ye tantreṇoccārayituṃ śakyante te ekaprayatnoccāryāḥ /
tadbande satyarthaśleṣo bhavati /
taduktam----
ekaprayatnoccāryāṇāmiti /
tathā ye teṣāmevaikaprayatnoccāryāṇāṃ śabdānāṃ chāyāṃ sādṛśyaṃ bibhrati tadupanibandhe ca śabdaśliṣṭam /
śabdāntare uccāryamāṇe sādṛśyavaśenānuccāritasyāpi śabdāntarasya śliṣṭatvāt /
taduktam---tacchāyāṃ caiva bibhratām /
svaritādiguṇairbhinnairbandhaḥ śliṣṭamiti /
tathā---śabdoktiviśiṣṭaṃ tatpratīyatāmiti /
etacca śliṣṭaṃ dvividhamapyupamādyalaṅkārapratibhotpādanadvāreṇālaṅkāratāṃ pratipadyate /
ato 'nenānavakāśatvāt svaviṣaye 'laṅkārāntarāṇyapodyante, teṣāṃ viṣayāntare sāvakāśatvāt /
taduktam----
alaṅkārāntaragatāṃ pratibhāṃ janayatpadaiḥ /
dvividhairiti /
alaṅkārāntarāṇāmatra pratibhāmātraṃ na tu padabandha ityarthaḥ /
tadevaṃ śabdaśliṣṭamarthaśliṣṭaṃ ca lakṣitam /
tasyodāharaṇam---

Here indeed, when multiple meanings are simultaneously intended from words having multiple meanings, there are two courses: first, according to the doctrine of the venerable Udbhaṭa, words differ with each difference in meaning. / There, of the words that differ according to the difference in meaning, some can be employed through single formulation, while some cannot. / Those whose consonants, vowels, places of articulation, efforts, and the like are identical can be employed through single formulation. / But where there is a difference—owing to consonants being single or multiple, vowels being accented acute, grave, and so on, places of articulation being labial, dentolabial, and so on, or efforts being slight, non-slight, and so on—their employment through single formulation is impossible, / because a single formulation must have a common form. / As it has been said: / ‘Single formulation must be common [to both].’ / And this being so, those that can be pronounced through single formulation are ‘pronounceable with a single effort.’ / When there is a combination of them, semantic pun arises. / As he said: / ‘of [words] pronounced with a single effort.’ / Likewise, in the composition of those words that bear the semblance—the resemblance—of those very words pronounced with a single effort, verbal pun arises, / because when one word is pronounced, by force of resemblance another word, even though unpronounced, is coalesced. / As he said: ‘and also of those bearing their semblance / with properties that differ, such as the circumflex accent, the combination is the pun.’ / Likewise: ‘let it be understood as distinguished by verbal expression.’ / And this pun, although two-fold, attains the status of an ornament by generating the appearance of other ornaments such as simile. / Hence, because it lacks room [elsewhere], other ornaments are superseded in its own domain, while those [other ornaments] do have room in other domains. / As he said: / ‘generating an appearance pertaining to another ornament by means of words / of two kinds.’ / The meaning is that here there is only an appearance of other ornaments, but not an actual syntactic arrangement of them. / Thus both verbal pun and semantic pun have been defined. / Its exemplification [is as follows]: