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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...

कालियस्य फण-रत्न-कुट्टिमं कुट्टयन् पद-सरोज-घट्टनै� |
मङ्गलानि वितनोत� ताण्डव� पण्डित� � विशिखण्ड-शेखर� ||

ⲹⲹ ṇa-ratna-kuṭṭima� ṭṭⲹ pada-saroja-ṭṭԲ� |
ṅgԾ vitanotu ṇḍ 貹ṇḍٲ� sa śṇḍ-ś󲹰� ||

ⲹⲹ—o ; ṇa—on the hoods; ratna—in the form of jewels; ṭṭ—the mosaic; ṭṭⲹ—w󾱱 striking; pada-saroja—o the lotus feet; ṭṭԲ�—with the moves; ṅgԾ—much auspiciousness; vitanotu—may He make; ṇḍ—a dancing; 貹ṇḍٲ�—e; —H; śṇḍ—is a special peacock’s tail feather; ś󲹰�—on whose crest.

May He who wears a peacock’s feather on His head and who showed expertise in dancing while striking the mosaic in the form of the jewels on ⲹ’s hoods with the moves of His lotus feet increase auspiciousness. (ū貹 ҴDz峾ī’s ṣṭ岹ś-󲹲Ի岹�-ٲ 16)

atra ī�. ghrāṇodghūrṇakety-ādi, atra bībhat�.

The verse features ī- (heroism). An example with ī󲹳ٲ is the verse that begins ṇo岵ūṇa첹 (4.35).

Commentary:

The ī-rasa is secondary. The subject of description is ṛṣṇa’s dancing on ⲹ’s hoods. The phonemes of ojas (vigor) (8.23) are used here to suggest the eminence of ṛṣṇa’s domination (this is the ī-), otherwise those sounds would constitute an instance of پū-ṇa (adverse phonemes) (7.53) (śܳپ-첹ṭu in a sentence).

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