Text 10.181 [Sahitya-kaumudi]

Sahitya-kaumudi by Baladeva Vidyabhushana

by Gaurapada D膩sa | 2015 | 234,703 words

Baladeva Vidyabhusana鈥檚 Sahitya-kaumudi covers all aspects of poetical theory except the topic of dramaturgy. All the definitions of poetical concepts are taken from Mammata鈥檚 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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Text 10.181

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啶呧い啷嵿ぐ啶多啶侧啶粪啶｀ぞ啶た啶ㄠた啶椸啶灌え啶� 啶え啷嵿く啶ㄠ啶む.啶ぅ啶�,

atra 艣le峁峁嚹乸i nig奴hana峁� manyante.yath膩,

In 惫测腻箩辞办迟颈, experts say the concealment can occur by 艣濒别峁. For instance:

hasten膩dya priya-sakhi lasat-pu峁ar腻产丑别苍补诲奴谤腻迟 k峁涐梗峁噀h膩ha峁� mada-kala-诲峁浥浤� kampit膩峁単墨惫颈办峁涐梗峁� |
n墨cair jalpa bhramati purato 产丑谤腻苍迟补-citte gurus te h奴峁� 办腻濒颈苍诲墨-pulina-vipine 诲墨辫谤补-dant墨艣vare峁嘺 ||

hastena鈥攚ith a hand (or with a tusk); adya鈥攖辞诲补测; priya-sakhi鈥擮 dear female friend; lasat鈥拦别蝉辫濒别苍诲别苍迟; 辫耻峁补谤补鈥�lotus flower; 腻产丑别苍补鈥擺the hand,] which is like (or lasat-辫耻峁补谤补-腻产丑别苍补鈥擺by an elephant,] which had the splendor of a resplendent tip of a tusk^[1] (or by 碍峁涐梗峁嘺, who had splendor because of the resplendent tip of his 鈥榯usk鈥�); or [the tusk,] which has the splendor of a resplendent lotus); 诲奴谤腻迟鈥攆rom afar; 办峁涐梗峁噀苍补鈥攂y 碍峁涐梗峁嘺 (or black); aham鈥擨; mada-kala鈥攁re highly intoxicated (or ruttish^[2]); 诲峁浥浤�鈥攚hose eyes; kampita鈥攚补蝉 trembling; 补峁単墨鈥擨 whose body; 惫颈办峁涐梗峁�鈥擨 was pulled; 苍墨肠补颈岣�鈥攍辞飞濒测; jalpa鈥攑lease talk; bhramati鈥擺the elder] is going around; 辫耻谤补迟补岣�鈥攊n front; 产丑谤腻苍迟补-citte鈥擮 you whose heart is perplexed; 驳耻谤耻岣�鈥攁n elder person; te鈥攔elated to you; 丑奴尘鈥攈尘尘; 办腻濒颈苍诲墨-pulina鈥攏ear the shore of the 驰补尘耻苍腻; vipine鈥攊n the forest; 诲墨辫谤补鈥攂lazing (ferocious); danti-墨艣惫补谤别峁嘺鈥攂y a king of elephants.

[A 驳辞辫墨 said:] 鈥淗ey girlfriend, today 碍峁涐梗峁嘺, whose eyes reveal His intoxication, took me far away with His hand, a duplicate of a resplendent lotus. My body was made to shake.鈥�

[Her friend replies:] 鈥淪hhh, speak softly, bewildered girl. Your elders are going around here.鈥�

[She continues:] 鈥淗mm, as I said, in the woodland by the 驰补尘耻苍腻鈥檚 shore a big elephant grabbed me with its trunk.鈥� (Uddhava-蝉补苍诲别艣补 61)

iha g膩岣峢otka峁囜弓hay膩 vyakta峁� vastu-艣le峁峁嘺 sa峁僾峁泃am.

Here, what became manifest because of great emotional attachment was covered with a double meaning on the whole idea.

Commentary:

The verse features a delayed 艣濒别峁 (double meaning). The words hasta (hand; tusk), 辫耻峁补谤补 (lotus; the tip of an elephant鈥檚 tusk), 腻产丑腻 (like; or the splendor), and 办峁涐梗峁嘺 (碍峁涐梗峁嘺; black) are paronomastic in the scheme of 艣补产诲补-艣濒别峁, whereas the other words are paronomastic in the scheme of artha-艣濒别峁. In her last sentence, the main speaker added the word 诲墨辫谤补-dant墨艣vare峁嘺 (by a big elephant), so that all her previous words became paronomastic modifiers of it.

The second interpretation of the whole verse turns out as follows:

鈥淗ey girlfriend, today, in the woodland by the 驰补尘耻苍腻鈥檚 shore, a big, black elephant grabbed me with its trunk, whose tip was resplendent. My body shook because the elephant鈥檚 eyes were ruttish.鈥�

痴颈艣惫补苍腻迟丑补碍补惫颈谤腻箩补鈥檚 variety of apahnuti, at the end of Commentary 10.61, is similar. However, the above verse shows that in 惫测腻箩辞办迟颈 there is no denial.