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 10.185
उदाहरणम्,
सत्-सङ्गमेनैव भवेद् विरागो विरागतः स्यान् मनसो विशुद्धिः ।
मनो-विशुद्ध्यैव हरेः प्रकाशो हरेः प्रकाशेन कृतार्थता स्यात् ॥
udāharaṇam,
sat-saṅgamenaiva bhaved virāgo virāgataḥ syān manaso viśuddhiḥ |
mano-viśuddhyaiva hareḥ prakāśo hareḥ prakāśena kṛtārthatā syāt ||
By only associating with sādhus, one develops dispassion. Owing to dispassion, the mind becomes purified. On account of purity of mind, Hari becomes manifest. And because of Hari’s manifestion, one achieves perfection. (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 8.238)
iha kathita-padatvaṃ na doṣaḥ, vihitānuvādāt.
The fault called kathita-pada (repeated word) does not occur here because there is a reiteration of what was ordained (7.60; 7.76).