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 9.28
न लवो'पि लवेन च व्यथायाः
परिवृद्धौ विदुनोति यस्य सर्वः |
न खलो नख-लोमतो मतो न्यस्-
तम् अबद्धाः किल केन संत्यजेयुः ||
na lavo'pi lavena ca vyathāyāḥ
parivṛddhau vidunoti yasya sarvaḥ |
na khalo nakha-lomato mato nyas-
tam abaddhāḥ kila kena saṃtyajeyuḥ ||
na lavaḥ api—not even a trace; lavena—with a fragment; ca—(verse filler); vyathāyāḥ—of pain; parivṛddhau—when there is an increase; vidunoti—pains; yasya—whose; sarvaḥ—all (miscreants) (any); na—not; khalaḥ—a miscreant; nakha—of the nails; lomataḥ—than the hair; mataḥ—thought of; nyastam—in the manner of being put down; abaddhāḥ—those who are unrestrained; kila—indeed; kena—by whom?; saṃtyajeyuḥ—can be abandoned.
A miscreant should not be thought of more than the hair of the nails.
evam-ādi-vaicitrya-sahasra-bhāg idaṃ kliṣṭa-kāvyam iti kṛtsnaṃ na vivṛtam. gadyeṣu tu nirantaraivāvṛttiḥ. yathā, “jaya jaya sac-cidānanda-ghana-ghana-ghaṭā-medura-duravagāha-līlaḥ” ity-ādi.
Yamaka has thousands of varieties in this way. Yamaka is the reason poetry is hard to make, thus here it is not entirely expounded. In prose, however, a repetition is constant. For instance: jaya jaya sac-cid-ānanda-ghana-ghana-ghaṭā-medura-duravagāha-līlaḥ, “Glory, glory to He who is real, whose awareness is deep, who has dense bliss, who is glistening like rainclouds, and whose pastimes are unfathomable.”
Commentary:
One yamaka is: ghana ghana. The first word ghana means dense, and the second one means cloud. The other yamaka is “dura dura.” In this one, each sound is meaningless.