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...
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Text 10.32
啶曕啶班ぎ啷囙ぃ啷嬥う啶距す啶班ぃ啶,
办谤补尘别峁噊诲腻丑补谤补峁嘺尘,
Examples are shown in order (this verse and the next illustrate 蝉惫补谤奴辫补 耻迟辫谤别办峁Ｄ�, imagining the nature):
j峁沵bh膩nubandha-vikasad-vadanodar膩峁嚹佱箖 肠补苍诲谤补岣� 办补谤别峁嘺 k峁沺ayena 办耻尘耻诲惫补迟墨苍腻尘 |
苍颈谤产腻峁补-驳腻岣峢补-惫颈谤补丑腻苍补濒补尘[1] ujjvalantam 补峁単腻谤补-辫耻帽箩补尘 iva 办补谤峁迟颈 产丑峁涐箙驳补-蝉补峁単丑补尘 ||
箩峁沵产丑补鈥攖o yawn; anubandha鈥攄ue to beginning; vikasat鈥攐辫别苍; vadana-耻诲补谤腻峁嚹乵鈥攚丑辞蝉别 mouths (鈥�hollow of the face鈥�); 肠补苍诲谤补岣�鈥攖he moon; 办补谤别峁嘺鈥攚ith its rays (or hands); 办峁沺补测腻鈥攐ut of mercy; iva鈥攁s if; 办耻尘耻诲惫补迟墨苍腻尘鈥攐蹿 night lotuses; 苍颈谤惫腻辫测补鈥攁fter extinguishing; 驳腻岣峢补鈥攊苍迟别苍蝉别; viraha鈥攐蹿 separation; analam鈥撵颈谤别; ujjvalantam鈥攂濒补锄颈苍驳; 补峁単腻谤补鈥攐蹿 charcoal; 辫耻帽箩补尘鈥攁 pile; iva鈥攍颈办别; 办补谤峁迟颈鈥攅虫迟谤颈肠补迟别蝉; 产丑峁涐箙驳补鈥攐蹿 bees; 蝉补峁単丑补尘鈥攁 multitude.
As if out of compassion, the moon extinguishes with its rays the fire of intense separation felt by night lotuses, whose mouths open because they begin to yawn. The moon thus extricates the ensnared bees, which look like piles of charcoal. (础濒补峁卥腻谤补-办补耻蝉迟耻产丑补 8.60)
Commentary:
At first Kavikar峁嘺p奴ra implies that the bees entered the lotuses before dawn. When the sun rose, the night lotuses closed and the bees were trapped. After sunset, the moonrays became prominent, therefore they made the night lotuses open. The verse as a whole is an 耻迟辫谤别办峁Ｄ�. Specifically, the 蝉惫补谤奴辫补 耻迟辫谤别办峁Ｄ� is: Bees look like piles of charcoal. And the expression 鈥渁s if out of compassion鈥� is a hetu 耻迟辫谤别办峁Ｄ� (fanciful imagination of a reason). In addition, implied 耻迟辫谤别办峁Ｄ乻 are: (1) The moon as if extinguishes with its hands (kara) the lotuses鈥� fire of intense separation, and (2) The imagined piles of charcoal are as if the end result of the lotuses鈥� fire of separation.
Further, the idea that lotuses have mouths is the first variety of the 补迟颈艣补测辞办迟颈 ornament (introsuspection) (10.84) because here a mouth signifies the cup of a lotus flower. Similarly, the fire of separation is technically an 补迟颈艣补测辞办迟颈, since 鈥渢he fire鈥� stands for 鈥渢he pang鈥�, yet it is a common poetic expression.