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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...

हर्ष-शोकाद्य्-आधिक्य� न्यू�-पदत्वं �. यथ�,

harṣa-śokādy-ādhikye ԲūԲ-padatva� ca. yathā,

The fault called ԲūԲ-pada (missing word) (7.60) is not a fault when there is great joy, or great sorrow, and so on. For example:

sa-smitā mṛga-śāvākṣ� gāḍham āliṅgitā mayā |
mā mā meti yad abrūta tan me kṛntati mānasam ||

Her eyes mimic the eyes of a fawn. She, who was smiling when I was deeply embracing her, said: “don’t, don’t, don’t…� That tears my heart. (adapted from 屹ⲹ-ś, verse 310)

atra pīḍayeti pada� nyūnam. tasya cānanda-magnatāpratyāyayatvād guṇatvam eva.

Here the verb “squeeze� is missing, and that is only a literary quality because it makes one perceive her absorption in great pleasure.

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