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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मूर्छयति च जीवयति च मुरहर वंशी तवाङ्गना-राजीः |
साङ्गी-भावम् अनङ्गं नयति च तत्-सिद्धि-मन्त्रोऽसौ ||
mūrchayati ca jīvayati ca murahara vaṃśī tavāṅganā-rājīḥ[1] |
sāṅgī-bhāvam anaṅgaṃ nayati ca tat-siddhi-mantro'sau ||
mūrchayati—makes them faint; ca—and; jīvayati—enlivens; ca—and; murahara—O killer of Mura; vaṃśī—flute; tava—Your; aṅganā—of women; rājīḥ—the multitudes; sa-aṅgī-bhāvam—the state of having a body; anaṅgam—Cupid (“he has no body”); nayati—brings; ca—and tat-siddhi—for his perfection; mantraḥ—is the mantra; asau—it.
O Kṛṣṇa, Your flute makes women faint and enlivens them. It also causes Cupid to become embodied. Your flute is the mantra for his perfection.
atra mūrchana-jīvane sāṅgī-bhāvaś ca kriyā, anaṅgo dravyam.
Here, “making them faint and enlivening them” is a contradiction between two actions, and “causes Cupid to become embodied” is a contradiction between an action and a unique entity.