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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 10.140 [Sahokti]

27. Sahokti

सा सहोक्तिः सहार्थस्� बलाद� एक� द्वि-वाचकम् � १०.११२cd �

sahokti� sahārthasya balād eka� 屹-峦첹 || 10.112cd ||

—t󲹳; -ܰپ�—t ornament called sahokti (“a mention of saha�); saha-arthasya—of the sense of saha (with); —by the force; ekam—one [word]; 屹-峦첹—it expresses two things.

When one word is doubly expressive, by the force of the sense of saha (with), that is sahokti (conjoined statement).

ekānvaya-bodhakam api sahārtha-balād ubhayor avagamaka� cet sahokti�.

If one word is syntactically connected with one thing yet it causes the understanding of a syntactical connection with another thing as well, by the force of the sense of saha, that is sahokti.

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