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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उत्तरोत्तरम् उत्कर्षो भवेत� सारः परावधि� � १०.१२३cd �
uttarottaram utkarṣo bhavet � parāvadhi� || 10.123cd ||
uttara-uttaram—in such a way that it is higher and higher; ٰܳ첹ṣa�—t eminence; bhavet—i; �—t ornament called ; para—is the highest; �—whose end.[1]
When the things enumerated gradually increase in excellence up to the limit, that is (climax).
uttarottara� nirūpyamāṇasyotkarṣasya cet paryante viśrāntis tadā �.
If in the end there is a repose of a gradual eminence, that is .