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 10.260
अथालङ्कार-दोषान् दर्शयति,
athālaṅkāra-doṣān darśayati,
Now he illustrates the faults in ornaments:
eṣāṃ doṣā yathā-yogaṃ sambhavanto’pi kecana |
ukteṣv antaḥ patantīti[1] na pṛthak-pratipāditāḥ ||10.142||
Although some literary defects might occur in an ornament, depending on the circumstance, they were not expounded separately because they are included in the aforementioned defects.