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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...

53. ṇa

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yathānubhavam arthasya ṛṣṭe ٲ-ṛśe ṛt� | ṇa || 10.132abc ||

ⲹٳ-Գܲ󲹱—in accordance with the experience (lit. “without going beyond a normal experience,� i.e. no imagination is involved); arthasya—of a thing; ṛṣṭe—is seen; ٲ-ṛśe—when what is similar to that; ṛt�—t remembrance; ṇa—t ornament called ṇa.

When there is a remembrance of a thing by seeing something similar to it in such a way that it is a normal experience, that is ṇa (remembrance).

sadṛśa-vastu-darśanena pūrvānubhūtasya tathaiva pratisandhāna� ṇa.

ṇa is the recollection, by seeing a similar thing, of a previously experienced thing in the same way it was.

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