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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...

क्रमेणोदाहरणम्,
अरुण� � तरुण� नयने तव मलिन� � प्रियस्य मुखम� �
मुखम� आनतं � सख� ते ज्वलितश् चास्यान्तर� ज्वलनः �

ṇo󲹰ṇa,
ṇe ca ٲṇi nayane tava malina� ca priyasya mukham |
mukham ānata� ca sakhi te jvalitaś cāsyāntare ᱹԲ� ||

ṇe—are red; ca—aԻ; ٲṇi—O youthful woman; nayane—two eyes (or when the eye); tavaЯdzܰ; malinam—gǴdz; ca—aԻ; priyasya—of the male lover; mukham—t face; mukham첹; Բٲ—was bowed; ca—aԻ; sakhi teЯdzܰ; ᱹٲ�—b; ca—aԻ; asya antare—in his inside; ᱹԲ�쾱.

The face of your beloved became gloomy right when your eyes turned red. And when, ī, you bowed your face, then the fire of love blazed anew in his heart. (󾱳ٲⲹ-岹貹ṇa 10.85)

atra pūrvārdhe guṇayor yaugapadya� parārdhe tu kriyayo�.

In the first sentence, two qualities simultaneously take place. In the second sentence, two actions simultaneoulsy occur.

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