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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...

उदाहरणम्,
श्रवसो� कुवलयम� अक्ष्णोर� अञ्जनम� उरसो महेन्द्र-मण�-दा� �
वृन्दावन-रमणीना� मण्डनम� अखिल� हरिर� जयति �

ܻ󲹰ṇa,
ś� kuvalayam akṣṇor ñᲹԲ uraso mahendra-ṇi-峾 |
ṛn屹Բ-ramaṇīnā� ṇḍԲ akhila� harir jayati ||

ś�—for the two ears; kuvalayamblue lotus flowers; ṣṇ�—for the two eyes; ñᲹԲ—oԳٳԳ; ܰ�—for the chest; mahendra-ṇi-—a necklace of Իī gems; ṛn屹Բ-ṇīn峾—for the young women of Vṛndāvana; ṇḍԲornaments; akhilam—a; 󲹰�Hari; jayati—supereminently exists.

He is the blue water lilies on the DZī� ears, the eyeliner on their eyes, and the necklace of Իī gems on their chests. He is all their ornaments. Hari is supereminent. (ṅk-첹ܲٳܲ 8.77) (Caitanya-峾ṛt 3.16.74)

Commentary:

ʲṇḍٲ-Ჹ Բٳ illustrates -ū貹첹,

vajra� pāpa-mahībhṛtā� bhava-gadodrekasya siddhauṣadha�
  mithyā-jñāna-niśā-viśāla-tamasas tigmāṃśu-bimbodaya�
|
krūra-kleśa-mahīruhām urutara-jvālā-jaṭāla� śikhī
  dvāra� nirvṛti-sadmano vijayate kṛṣṇeti varṇa-dvayam
||

“The pair of syllables “Kṛṣ-ṇa� is glorious. It is a thunderbolt for the mountains of sinful reactions, the effective medicine for the upsurge of the disease of material life, the rise of the sun for the deep darkness of the night of false knowledge, the conflagration for the trees of fierce afflictions, and the entrance gate to the palace of beatitude� (峾ī- 4.8).

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