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 10.184 [Kāraṇa-mālā]
40. Kāraṇa-mālā
यथोत्तरं चेत् पूर्वस्य
yathottaraṃ cet pūrvasya
pūrvasyārthasya hetutā | tadā kāraṇa-mālā syāt ||10.120abc|| yathā-uttaram—of each next one; cet—if; pūrvasya pūrvasya—each previous; arthasya—meaning; hetutā—is a cause; tadā—then; kāraṇa-mālā—the ornament called kāraṇa-mālā; syāt—is.
When each preceding thing is the cause of the next thing, that is kāraṇa-mālā (series of causes).
uttaram uttaraṃ prati yathottaram.
The word yathottaram means: uttaram uttaraṃ prati (of each successive one).