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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...

Text 10.62 [Artha-śṣa]

8. Artha-śṣa

श्लेषः � वाक्� एकस्मिन् यत्रानेकार्थता भवेत� � १०.९६cd �

śṣa� sa vākya ekasmin yatrānekārthatā bhavet || 10.96cd ||

When there is more than one meaning in one sentence, that is śṣa (one literal meaning applies to two things).

ekārthānām api śabdānā� yady anekārtha-vācitva� tadā śṣa�.

If words that have only one meaning are literally expressive of more than one thing, that is śṣa (artha-śṣa) (9.35-36).

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