Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana
by Gaurapada D膩sa | 2015 | 234,703 words
Baladeva Vidyabhusana鈥檚 Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata鈥檚 Kavya-prakasha, the most authoritative work on Sanskrit poetical rhetoric. Baladeva Vidyabhushana added the eleventh chapter, where he expounds additional ornaments from Visv...
Text 10.7
啶夃う啶距す啶班ぃ啶,
耻诲腻丑补谤补峁嘺尘,
These are the examples of elliptical similes characterized by the ellipsis of the common attribute (dharma-lope 濒耻辫迟辞辫补尘腻):
惫补诲补苍补峁� vidhur yathokti岣� sudheva 迟耻濒测腻 迟补苍奴岣� 辫谤补蝉奴苍别苍补 |
adharas tu bimba-bandhur 尘补苍补岣� 办补迟丑补峁� 办耻濒颈艣补-kalpa峁� te ||
vadanam鈥�face; 惫颈诲丑耻岣�鈥攖he moon; 测补迟丑腻鈥攍颈办别; 耻办迟颈岣�鈥�speech; 蝉耻诲丑腻鈥拢别肠迟补谤; iva鈥攍颈办别; 迟耻濒测腻鈥攕颈尘颈濒补谤; 迟补苍奴岣�鈥攂辞诲测; 辫谤补蝉奴苍别苍补鈥攖o a flower; 补诲丑补谤补岣�鈥�lower lip; tu鈥攈辞飞别惫别谤; bimba鈥攐f the bimba fruit; 产补苍诲丑耻岣�鈥攖he friend; 尘补苍补岣�鈥攎ind (or heart); katham鈥攚丑测?; 办耻濒颈艣补鈥攁 thunderbolt; kalpam鈥攁lmost like; te鈥携辞耻谤.
Your face is like the moon (te 惫补诲补苍补峁� vidhur 测补迟丑腻).
Your speech is like nectar (te 耻办迟颈岣� 蝉耻诲丑腻-iva).
Your body resembles a flower (te 迟补苍奴岣� 辫谤补蝉奴苍别苍补 迟耻濒测腻).
Your netherlip is the friend of a ripe bimba fruit (te adharo bimba-产补苍诲丑耻岣�).
Why is your heart almost like a thunderbolt? (te 尘补苍补岣� 办补迟丑补峁� 办耻濒颈艣补-kalpam)
atra dharma-lope pa帽cadh膩 lupt膩 kram膩d bodhy膩.
In this verse, the five kinds of elliptical simile when there is an ellipsis of the common attribute are to be understood by the sequence (10.6).
Commentary:
The common attributes which were elided in the above five examples are as follows, sequentially: being beautiful, being sweet, being lovely, being red, and being hard. The purpose of eliding one or more elements of a complete simile is to add literary charm, since the missing element is left to be implied, and an implied sense is the life of poetry.