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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[This verse illustrates a meaning implied from the padāṃśa called kāla (time):]
जयति जन-निवासो देवकी-जन्म-वादो यदु-वर-परिषत् स्वैर् दोर्भिर् अस्यन्न् अधर्मम् |
स्थिर-चर-वृजिन-घ्नः सुस्मित-श्री-मुखेन व्रज-पुर-वनितानां वर्धयन् काम-देवम् ||
jayati jana-nivāso devakī-janma-vādo yadu-vara-pariṣat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam |
sthira-cara-vṛjina-ghnaḥ susmita-śrī-mukhena vraja-pura-vanitānāṃ vardhayan kāma-devam ||
Jananivāsa, regarding whom there is a theory that He took birth from Devakī; whose entourage consists of the best Yadus; and who ends the afflictions of immobile entities and of mobile beings, supereminently abides while dispelling unrighteousness by means of His arms in the form of His own people and while increasing the passionate love of the women of Vraja, of the women of Mathurā, and of the women of Dvārakā. (Bhāgavatam 10.90.48)
atra tat-tat-parikara-vaiśiṣṭyena tās tā līlā nityāś cakāsatīty asyan vardhayan jayatīti vartamāna-kālasya.
In this verse, owing to the specialty of the respective associates, the present tense in the participles asyan (while dispelling) and vardhayan (while increasing) and in the verb jayati (is glorious; supereminently exists) suggests that those pastimes are eternal.