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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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सरसी-कुरुते मनांसि नो मुरहर्तु� पुरत� मृगाक्षि यः |
अधुन� विपिना� सङ्गते सत� तस्मिन� कुलिशः � तु स्मर� ||

sarasī-kurute ṃs no murahartu� purato mṛgākṣi ⲹ� |
ܲ 辱ⲹ ṅgٱ sati tasmin ܱś� sa tu � ||

-ī-ܰܳٱ—makes passionate; ṃshearts; Բ�—oܰ; mura-󲹰ٳ�—of the killer of Mura; ܰٲ�—in front of (in the presence of); ṛg-ṣi—O doe-eyed girl; ⲹ�—w; ܲ£Ƿ; 辱ⲹ—for the forest; ṅgٱ𲹻; sati tasmin—when He is; ܱś�—tܲԻDZ; —t󲹳; tu—oԱ; —Cܱ辱.

O doe-eyed girl, Cupid, who makes our hearts passionate when ṛṣṇa is present, has become a thunderbolt now that He is ready to go to the forest.

atra smara-kuliśau dravye.

Here, Cupid and a thunderbolt are a contradiction between two unique things.

Commentary:

According to ʲṇḍٲ-Ჹ Բٳ, the rule that establishes the classification either as a virodha or as a ū貹첹 is that in virodha, the strikingness lies in the contradiction, not in the nondifference, whereas in ū貹첹 the strikingness lies in the nondifference—which implies a charming similarity of attribute—and not in the contradiction.[1]

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[1]:

iha hi ṅk-varge yo yatra sahṛdaya-camatkṛti-patham avatarati sa eva tatrālaṅkāra iti nirvivādam. eva� ca rūpake �ܰ� Ի�� ity-ādau yadyapy asti virodhas tathāpi na sa tatra pratipipādayiṣita�, api tu candra-Ծṣṭ岹첹ٱ徱-sakala-guṇānā� mukhe pratipatty-ٳ� candrābheda eveti sa camatkārī, na ǻ� (Rasa-ṅg󲹰, KM p. 430).

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