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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विशेष-परिवृत्तो विशेषेऽविशेषः. यथा, यान्ति नील-निचोलिन्यो रजनीष्व् अभिसारिकाः. अत्र तमिस्रास्व् इति रजनी-विशेषो वाच्यः.
viśeṣa-parivṛtto viśeṣe'viśeṣaḥ. yathā, yānti nīla-nicolinyo rajanīṣv abhisārikāḥ. atra tamisrāsv iti rajanī-viśeṣo vācyaḥ.
(14) The fault called viśeṣa-parivṛtta (too general) means viśeṣe aviśeṣa (a generality when a particular instance should be stated). For example: yānti nīla-nicolinyo rajanīṣv abhisārikāḥ. “During the nights, the women, wearing dark shawls, go on a tryst.” Here a particular kind of night should have been stated: “on pitch-black nights.” (Sāhitya-darpaṇa 7.12)