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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...

तथ� हि, वैफल्य-प्रसिद्ध्य�-अभाव-वृत्त्य्-अयोग्यता अनुप्रास� दोषा�. ते क्रमाद� अपुष्टार्थत्�-प्रसिद्ध�-विरो�-प्रतिकूल-वर्णत्�-रूपास् तत�-स्वाभाव्यात्.

tathā hi, vaiphalya-prasiddhy-屹-vṛtty-Dzⲹ anuprāse doṣāḥ. te kramād ṣṭٳtva-prasiddhi-virodha-پū-ṇatva-rūpās tat-svābhāvyāt.

The details are as follows. The defects in Գܱ (alliteration) are: (1) vaiphalya (uselessness), (2) prasiddhi-屹 (absence of convention), and (3) ṛtپ-Dzⲹ (unsuitability of the mode of alliteration). They are forms of ṣṭٳ (irrelevant) (7.85), prasiddhi-virodha (contrary to what is well known) (7.93), and پū-ṇa (adverse phonemes) (7.53), respectively, since they have the same natures. Examples are shown in order.

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