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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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[This is an example of a thing which is resplendent in the absence of another:]

सांख्य-योगादिकैर् भावैर् विनेयम� अतिशोभना �
अइकान्तिकी हरेर� भक्तिस� तद�-वशी-करणौषधिः �

ṃkⲹ-yogādikair bhāvair vineyam پśDz󲹲 |
Գپī harer bhaktis tad-vaśī-첹ṇauṣadhi� ||

ṃkⲹ—o ṅkⲹ philosophy (wherein the ʳܰṣa is merely the correlative of ʰṛt); yoga—o the eightfold yoga system; 徱첹�—and so on (“whose beginning is�) (i.e. karma-yoga); 屹� —without the modes of existence; iyam—t󾱲; پśDz󲹲—very resplendent; Գپī—exclusive (one-pointed); 󲹰�—t Hari; 󲹰پ�—devotional service; ٲ-śī-첹ṇa—which brings Him under control; ṣa�—t medicine.

Exclusive devotional service to Hari, the remedy that makes Him give an ear, is very resplendent without ṅkⲹ philosophy, without meditation on the impersonal form of the Absolute Truth, and without an engagement in material activities.

Commentary:

ʲṇḍٲ-Ჹ Բٳ says that each vinokti in the following verse is based on śṣo貹 (simile founded on paronomasia[1]):

ٰir virājante śūrā� san-maṇayo yathā |
na dānena bhānti nṛpā loke dvipā iva ||

“As fighters are eminent without ٰ (fear), so are precious stones (ٰ is a fault in a gem[2]). Like elephants, kings are not splendid without Բ (giving)� (Rasa-ṅg󲹰). As regards elephants, Բ means rut fluid on the temples.

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

atra śṣa-ūDZ貹Գܰū (Rasa-ṅg󲹰, KM p. 365).

[2]:

trāso bhaye maṇer doṣe (ѱ徱ī-ś).

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