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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 10.208 [Adhika]

49. Adhika

महतोर् यन� महीयांसाव� आश्रिताश्रययोः क्रमात� �
आश्रयाश्रयिण� स्याता� तनुत्वेऽप्य् अधिक� तु तत� � १०.१२� �

mahator yan mahīyāṃsāv āśritśⲹyo� |
āśrayāśrayiṇau syātā� tanutve'py adhika� tu tat ||10.128||

󲹳ٴ�—are vast; yat—if (yat = yadi); īṃs—t two are greater; śٲ-śⲹ�—when the contents and the container; —sܱԳپ; śⲹ-ś⾱ṇa—t container and the contents; —a; tanutve api—although there is smallness; adhikam—t ornament called adhika; tu—oԱ; tat—t󲹳.

When the container, though smaller, greatly exceeds the contents, or when the contents, though smaller, greatly exceed the container, that is adhika (exceeding).

mahator apy ādheyādhārayor viṣaye tad-apekṣayā svalpāv apy ādhārādheyau prakṛta-bhūma-vivakṣayā krameṇa cen īṃs syātā� tadā dvi-vidham adhikam. ādhārādheyayor ekasyādhikye’dhikam iti hi niṣkarṣa�. (See above.)

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