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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...

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62. ṅk

अविश्रान्त�-जुषाम् आत्मन्य् अङ्गाङ्गित्व� तु सङ्करः � १०.१४०ab �

śԳپ-ṣām ātmany aṅgāṅgitva� tu ṅk� || 10.140ab ||

śԳپ-ṣām—t ornaments� (“which do not partake of a repose�); ٳԾ—in itself (in themselves) (or in a body [of words][1]); ṅg-ṅgٱ—being a secondary aspect and being the main thing; tu—oԱ; ṅk�—t ornament called ṅk.

When ornaments cannot exist by themselves and have the relation of ṅg and ṅgī, that is ṅk (interdependent mix of ornaments).

ta eva ced ātmany aprapta-svātantryā mitho'nugrāhyānugrāhakatā� dhārayanti, tarhi ṅk-nāmā.

If ornaments are not independent of one another, in other words they assume the relation of “facilitator and facilitated�, that is the ornament called ṅk.

Commentary:

Generally, the ornament which is the ṅg (secondary aspect) is the facilitator, and the ornament which is the ṅgī (main thing) is facilitated.[2] However, that is not always the case. Moreover, ṅk has three varieties; the two others are mentioned ahead (10.252; 10.257).

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

ete eva yatrٳԾ anāsādita-svatantra-屹� parasparam anugrāhyānugrāhakatā� dadhati sa eṣāṃ saṅkīryamāṇa-svarūpatvāt ṅk� (屹ⲹ-ś 10.140).

[2]:

vyākaroti, eta iti. ṅgm anugrāhakam (-ٳԳܰñᾱī).

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