365bet

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...

Go directly to: Footnotes.

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).

Footnotes and references:

[back to top]

[1]:

sva-ṇa-پ� (屹ⲹ- edition).

Let's grow together!

I humbly request your help to keep doing what I do best: provide the world with unbiased sources, definitions and images. Your donation direclty influences the quality and quantity of knowledge, wisdom and spiritual insight the world is exposed to.

Let's make the world a better place together!

Like what you read? Help to become even better: