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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Text 11.38 [ū-ū貹]
71. ū-ū貹
पुनः स्�-गु�-सम्प्राप्तिः पूर्�-रूपम� उदीर्यत� � ११.९ab �
puna� sva-guṇa-پ�[1] ū-ū貹m udīryate || 11.9ab ||
When a thing reobtains its own quality, that is ū-ū貹 (previous form).
Commentary:
The ornaments from here to the end are taken from Jayadeva’s 䲹Իǰ첹. In ܱԲԻ岹, Appaya īṣiٲ copied Jayadeva’s methodology. Among these ornaments, ʲṇḍٲ-Ჹ Բٳ only accepts ṣaṇa, 貹ṇām, and Գñ. The ū-ū貹 ornament is a form of the ٲ-ṇa ornament (taking a quality of another) (10.236).