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; ⲹ-Բ�—of a ⲹ (“what is to be proved�) and of a Բ (a cause, “it proves it�) (Բ = hetu); �—t expression.
When a ⲹ 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 ⲹ (the thing to be proved) from a Բ (a reason, a universal rule), then there is ԳܳԲ.