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 11.1
कृपया यस्य भक्तानां न किञ्चित् परिशिष्यते ।
मनसि स्फुरतु श्रीमान् ममासौ श्यामसुन्दरः ॥
kṛpayā yasya bhaktānāṃ na kiñcit pariśiṣyate |
manasi sphuratu śrīmān mamāsau śyāmasundaraḥ ||
May Śyāmasundara appear in my heart. By the mercy of His devotees, nothing is overlooked.
iha bharatoktebhyaḥ kecana pariśiṣṭāḥ pradarśyante.
Some ornaments remain. They were not told by Bharata Muni. They are shown in this chapter.
Commentary:
Here the ornaments of sound are sourced in Agni Purāṇa and in Viśvanātha Kavirāja’s Sāhitya-darpaṇa, whereas the ornaments of meaning are sourced in Ruyyaka’s Alaṅkāra-sarvasva, in Viśvanātha’s Sāhitya-darpaṇa, and in Jayadeva’s Candrāloka. Since these ornaments are not in Kāvya-prakāśa, Kavikarṇapūra does not acknowledge them.