Text 10.207

(4) [An action of the effect is the opposite of an action of the cause:]

jātaḥ sakhi manojas te netreṇānanda-dāyinā |
tāpaṃ tanoti kṛṣṇasya tanvi citram idaṃ mahat ||

Sakhī, Cupid, generated by your eyes, givers of joy, afflicts Kṛṣṇa. This is a great wonder.

atrānanda-tāpayoḥ kriyayoḥ.

There is a contradiction between two actions: giving joy (the cause) and causing pain (the effect).

Commentary:

There is no virodha because the substratums of the actions are respectively different. This is Mammaṭa’s example:

ānandam amandam imaṃ kuvalaya-dala-locane dadāsi tvam |
virahas tvayaiva janitas tāpayatitarāṃ śarīraṃ me ||

“Lotus-petal-eyed girl, you give much happiness, yet the pang of separation caused by your absence torments my body” (Kāvyālaṅkāra 9.47).

Mammaṭa explains:

atrānanda-dānaṃ śarīra-tāpena virudhyate,

“Here, giving joy is incompatible with afflicting the body” (Kāvya-prakāśa verse 540 vṛtti).

The woman is the cause and separation the effect. Furthermore, Mammaṭa says viṣama is not limited to his four subvarieties because the gist of viṣama is a disparity.^[1]

He gives this additional example:

vipulena sāgara-śayasya kukṣiṇā bhuvanāni yasya papire yuga-kṣaye |
mada-vibhramāsakalayā pape punaḥ sa pura-striyaikatamayaikayā dṛśā ||

“With a crooked sidelong glance, some woman in that city repeatedly drank up Him who rests on an ocean and who drinks up the worlds into His colossal abdomen at the end of time” (Śiśupāla-vadha 13.40) (Kāvya-prakāśa verse 541).

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

ity-ādāv api viṣamatvaṃ yathā-yogam avagantavyam (Kāvya-prakāśa verse 541 vṛtti).