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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यथा,
yathā,
This is an example of second-rate poetry:
karṇa-kalpita-rasāla-mañjarī-piñjarī-kṛta-kapola-maṇḍalaḥ |
niṣpatan-nayana-vāri-dhārayā rādhayā madhuripur nirīkṣyate ||
karṇa—on the ears; kalpita—that are arranged; rasāla-mañjarī—by the mango buds; piñjarī-kṛta—are made reddish; kapola-maṇḍalaḥ—He the region of whose cheeks; niṣpatan—that was gushing; nayana—from the eyes; vāri—of water; dhārayā—who had a flow; rādhayā—by Rādhā; madhu-ripuḥ—Kṛṣṇa; nirīkṣyate—was seen.
Kṛṣṇa, whose cheeks were reddened by the mango buds placed on His ears, was beheld by Rādhā. A flow of tears gushed from Her eyes.
atra rasāla-vāṭī-kṛta-saṅketā tatrāhaṃ na gateti vyaṅgyaṃ guṇī-bhūtaṃ tad-apekṣayā vācyasyaiva cārutvāt.
Here the implied sense: “I, Rādhā, who had set up a rendezvous in the arbor of mango trees, did not go there,” has become secondary (guṇī-bhūta), because compared to it only the literal sense is beautiful.=