Text 9.47

क्रमेणोदाहरणम्,

krameṇodāharaṇam,

Examples are shown in order (here the sounds are broken):

tvad-bāṇa-viṣayo nābhūd abalāstrī ripuḥ kvacit |
pārīndro’bhyeti kumbhīndraṃ maśakaṃ na sa kṛntati ||

tvat—Your; bāṇa—of arrows; viṣayaḥ—an object; na abhūt—did not become; abala-astrī—who has no power (bala) and no weapon (astra); ripuḥ—an enemy; kvacit—at some time; pāri-indraḥ—a lion (“the king of animals”); abhyeti—goes toward; kumbhi-indram—a king of elephants; maśakam—a mosquito; na—not; saḥ—it (a lion); kṛntati—cut.

An enemy who had no power and no weapon never became an object of Your arrows. A lion goes to an elephant. It does not hurt a mosquito.

Commentary:

The punar-uktavad-ābhāsa occurs in: abalāstrī (he has no power and no weapon): Ordinarily, abalā and strī are synonymous in the meaning of “woman”, yet there is no redundancy because here neither sound is used in that sense. Moreover, both sounds are broken: abalā is construed as a-bala-a, and the sound strī is actually part of the word astrī. In this instance of punar-uktavad-ābhāsa, neither sound is used in the meaning it appears to have (woman).

Thus punar-uktavad-ābhāsa has five varieties: (1) Both groups of sounds are broken, (2) Neither group is broken (there are two words proper), but neither word is used in the sense of the synonym, (3) Only one group is broken, yet the word is not used in the meaning of the synonym, (4) Only one group is broken, and the word is used in the meaning of the synonym, and (5) Neither group is broken, and one word is used in the sense of the synonym. The second category is illustrated below. The last two categories are in the scope of text 9.49.