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 10.15
क्यच� वाद्य्-उपमेयासे � १०.९०c �
kyaci dy-upamey || 10.90c ||
kyaci—in the scope of the suffix [k]ya[c]; -ādi—of the word of comparison such as (like); upameya—and of the subject of the comparison; —when there is a rejection (exclusion) ( = nir).
The elliptical simile characterized by the ellipsis of the upameya and of the word of comparison occurs when the suffix [k]ya[c] is used.
der upameyasya ca nir kyaci ca dṛśyate. (The translation of the elaboration was incorporated in the translation of the ūٰ.)