Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana
by Gaurapada Dāsa | 2015 | 234,703 words
Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata’s Kavya-prakasha, the most authoritative work on Sanskrit poetical rhetoric. Baladeva Vidyabhushana added the eleventh chapter, where he expounds additional ornaments from Visv...
Text 7.12
नव� हरति सा चित्तं मुकुन्� तव सुन्दरी. अत्र नवेत्य� एक� पद� वेति सन्देह�.
Բ harati sā citta� mukunda tava sundarī. atra navety eka� pada� veti sandeha�.
(10) [This illustrates sandeha (ambiguity):] “O Mukunda, that beautiful young woman steals Your heart.� Here the ambiguity is as follows: Is Բ (young) one word or is it separated as: na vā (maybe not) (“O Mukunda, that beautiful woman might not steal Your heart�).