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...
Text 2.4
अर्थस्यापि व्यञ्जकताम् आह,
arthasyāpi vyañjakatām āha,
He states that even a meaning can be suggestive:
sarveṣāṃ prāyaśo’rthānāṃ vyañjakatvam apīṣyate ||2.7ab||
sarveṣām—all; prāyaśaḥ—for the most part; arthānām—of the meanings; vyañjakatvam—the suggestiveness; api—also; iṣyate—is desired.
For the most part, all types of meanings can be suggestive.
prāyaśo vaktr-ādi-vaiśiṣṭye satīty arthaḥ.
“For the most part” means: “when there is a specialty of the speaker, and so forth.”
Commentary:
Mammaṭa did not write a vṛtti here. Conventional figurative usage (rūḍhi-lakṣaṇā) does not inherently gives rise to an implied sense (2.17). The “specialties” are the topic of the next chapter (3.2-3).