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 7.23
अपास्य च्युत-संस्कारम् असमर्थं निरर्थकम् |
वाक्येऽपि दोषा सन्त्य् एते पदस्यांशेऽपि केचन ||7।52||
क्रमेणोदाहरणानि
apāsya cyuta-saṃskāram asamarthaṃ nirarthakam |
vākye'pi doṣā santy ete padasyāṃśe'pi kecana ||7.52||
krameṇodāharaṇāni
Except cyuta-saṃskāra (grammatical mistake), asamartha (unable to be meaningful), and nirarthaka (meaningless), literary faults also occur in a sentence. Some faults also occur in a part of a word. Examples are shown in order.
Commentary:
The faults in a word (pada-doṣa) have been shown. From now on, the aforesaid faults in a sentence (vākya-doṣa) will be exemplified. The faults in a part of word (padāṃśa-doṣa) are illustrated from text 7.47. More faults in a sentence are expounded from text 7.52.