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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 10.173 [ԳܳԲ]

36. ԳܳԲ

अनुमान� तद� उक्त� यत� साध्�-साधनयोर् वच� � १०.११७cd �

ԳܳԲ� tad ukta� yat ⲹ-󲹲Բyor � ||10.117cd||

ԳܳԲ—t ornament named ԳܳԲ (syllogism); tat—t󲹳; uktam—is called; yat—w󾱳; -󲹲Բ�—of a (“what is to be proved�) and of a 󲹲Բ (a cause, “it proves it�) (󲹲Բ = hetu); —t expression.

When a and a 󲹲Բ are expressed, that is called ԳܳԲ (inference).

vicchittyā cet sādhanāt ⲹsya jñāna� tadānumānam.

If by the literary strikingness there is the knowledge of a (the thing to be proved) from a 󲹲Բ (a reason, a universal rule), then there is ԳܳԲ.

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