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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...

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मूर्छयति � जीवयति � मुरह� वंशी तवाङ्गना-राजी� |
साङ्गी-भावम� अनङ्गं नयति � तत�-सिद्धि-मन्त्रोऽसौ ||

ū󲹲ⲹپ ca īⲹپ ca murahara ṃś� tavāṅganā-ī�[1] |
sāṅgī-bhāvam anaṅga� nayati ca tat-siddhi-mantro'sau ||

ū󲹲ⲹپ—makes them faint; ca—aԻ; īⲹپ—eԱԲ; ca—aԻ; murahara—O killer of Mura; ṃś�ܳٱ; tava—Ydzܰ; ṅg—o women; ī�—the multitudes; -ṅgī-屹—the state of having a body; Բṅg—Cupid (“he has no body�); nayati—bԲ; ca—aԻ tat-siddhi—for his perfection; Գٰ�—is the mantra; asau—i.

O ṛṣṇa, Your flute makes women faint and enlivens them. It also causes Cupid to become embodied. Your flute is the mantra for his perfection.

atra mūrchana-jīvane sāṅgī-bhāvaś ca kriyā, anaṅgo dravyam.

Here, “making them faint and enlivening them� is a contradiction between two actions, and “causes Cupid to become embodied� is a contradiction between an action and a unique entity.

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ᾱ� (屹ⲹ- edition).

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