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 10.30
उदाहरणम्,
श्री-राधिकानन्यसम� लसत्य् अस� माधुर्�-सम्पत्तिर् इवाद्यविद् विषः |
माधुर्�-सम्पत्तिर् अपीयम� उच्चकै� श्री-राधिकेवानुपम� विराजत� ||
ܻṇa,
śī-nanya lasaty asau ܰⲹ-sampattir ivādyavid viṣa� |
ܰⲹ-sampattir apīyam ܳ첹� śī-rādhikevānupamā Ჹٱ ||
śī-—Śrī Rādhikā; ananya-—She than whom there is no equal; lasati—sԱ; asau—t; ܰⲹ—o sweetness; 貹ٳپ�—aڴڱܱԳ; iva—l; -屹ṣa�—o ṛṣṇa (“the enemy of Agha�); ܰⲹ—o sweetness; 貹ٳپ�—aڴڱܱԳ; api—e; iyam—t; ܳ첹�—very much; śī-—Śrī Rādhikā; iva—l; Գܱ貹—She who has no comparison; Ჹٱ—sԱ.
Rādhikā, being unrivalled, is dazzling like ṛṣṇa’s profuse sweetness. Even His profuse sweetness shines like Rādhikā, who is utterly incomparable. (Govinda-ī峾ṛt 11.119)
ihopameyena punar upamā-vidhānād anyad ܱ貹Բ� vyavacchidyate.
In this ornament, owing to the usage of a comparison with the upameya once more, a third ܱ貹Բ is excluded.