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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...

सदोदित्व�-तेजः-श्री रजनी-विहत-प्रभम् �
भास्वन्त� जितवान� एष भास्वान् वृन्दावनेश्वरः �

sadoditvara-ٱᲹ�-śrī Ჹī-vihata-prabham |
bhāsvanta� ᾱٲ eṣa vṛndāvaneśvara� ||

—aɲ; uditvara—rises well; ٱᲹ�—of effulgence; śī�ṛṣṇa,] whose splendor; Ჹī—a night; vihata—is lost; prabham‰the sun,] whose light; Գٲ—the sun (“it has light�); ᾱٲ—dڱ𲹳ٱ; ṣa�—this one; —He has resplendence; ṛn屹Բ-īś�—the Lord of Vṛndāvana.

This resplendent one (), the Lord of Vṛndāvana, whose effulgence always increases, defeats the sun (), whose light is lost at night. (based on 屹ⲹ-ś verse 469)

atrevādi-śabdābhāvād ākṣipta� sāmyam. bhāsvac-chabda� śliṣṭa�. ādya-pādayor hetvor ukti�, anuktiṣu bhedās tu prāg-vad bodhyā�. tad eva� caturviśatir vyatirekā�.

Here the contrast is implied because no word of comparison is used. The word is paronomastic. Both reasons are mentioned. The other varieties occur like the previous ones. Thus vyatireka has twenty-four categories.

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