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 3.1
एवं शाब्दीं व्यञ्जनां निरूप्यार्थीं तां वक्तुम् उपक्रमते,
evaṃ śābdīṃ vyañjanāṃ nirūpyārthīṃ tāṃ vaktum upakramate,
Having expounded Suggestiveness related to a word (śābdī vyañjanā), he begins to describe Suggestiveness related to a meaning (ārthī vyañjanā):
arthāḥ proktāḥ purā teṣām artha-vyañjakatocyate ||3.21ab||
arthāḥ—the meanings; proktāḥ—mentioned; purā—earlier; teṣām—related to them (related to words); artha-vyañjakatā—the suggestiveness of the meanings; ucyate—is said.
The meanings pertaining to those ones were mentioned. The suggestiveness of the meanings was stated.
teṣāṃ vācakādīnāṃ vācyādayo’rthāḥ pūrvam uktās tad-vyañjakatā ca.
The meanings—that is to say the literal sense (vācya artha), the indicated sense (lakṣya artha) and the implied sense (vyaṅgya artha)—pertain to a literally expressive word (vācaka), to an indirectly expressive word (lakṣya) and to a suggestive word (vyañjaka) respectively. They were mentioned (2.2), and so was their suggestiveness (2.4).