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Verse 604 The great joy that I feel at being honoured by you is not contained by my limbs spreading over all the quarters-said by Himalaya to the sages. Here the idea that even the vast limbs of Himalaya could not contain the great joy gives rise to a contra. diction. This verse, again, would be an instance of f according to मम्मट.
Verse 605 is the
verse (first benedictory verse ) from राजशेखर's drama ( विद्धशालभञ्जिका ) :I extol the beautiful women, the conquerors of Shankar, who by their eyes revived cupid who was burnt by Shankar with his (third) eye.
In one case the eye was the cause of the burning of cupid, but in another case it was the cause of reviving him and hence the contradiction. This is admitted as an instance of व्याघातालकार by मम्मट and
several other rhetoricians.
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व्याघात is defined by मम्मट as follows:यथा साधितं केनाप्यपरेण तदन्यथा ।
तथैव यद्विधीयेत स व्याघात इति स्मृतः ॥
The following verse (606) when rendered into sanskrit would read as follows:
धवलोsसि यद्यपि सुन्दर ! तथापि स्वया मम रञ्जितं हृदयम् । रागभरितेऽपि हृदये सुभग निहितोऽपि न रक्तोसि ॥
Here there is a pun on the words रञ्जित, राग and रक्त. (2) rendered red.
fa (1) made full of love (1) red colour (2) love.
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(1) full of love (2) red.
Even when you are white (in complexion) you have rendered my heart red (full of love).
That a white thing should make another thing red is a contradiction; and that a thing placed in a
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