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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आश्रयैक्ये विरुद्धो यः स कार्यो भिन्न-संश्रयः ॥ ७.६४ab ॥
āśrayaikye viruddho yaḥ sa kāryo bhinna-saṃśrayaḥ || 7.64ab ||
The contradictory rasa which is in the same āśraya should be made in a separate āśraya.
vīra-bhayānakayor ekāśrayatvena virodhād bhayānakaḥ prati-pakṣa-gatatvena varṇanīyaḥ.
Since vīra-rasa and bhayānaka-rasa are contradictory when they are in the same person, the bhayānaka-rasa should be described in terms of being in another person.