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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The readings of the text of Sāhitya-kaumudī are taken from the Kāvya-mālā edition (63) of Sāhitya-kaumudī (Paṇḍit Śivadatta and Kāśīnāth Pāṇḍuraṅg Parab. (eds.), Bombay: Nirṇaya Sāgar Press, 1897). Another reference is: Sāhitya-kaumudī by Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa (G.C. Tripati (ed.), Allahabad: Rashtriya Sanskrit Saṃsthan, 1981). An additional publication is the edition of Sāhitya-kaumudī by Haridāsa Śāstrī (Vṛndāvana, India, 1985).
In the introduction to his Rashtriya Sanskrit Saṃsthan edition, Dr. G.C. Tripati says Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa is also the author of the official commentary on Sāhitya-kaumudī, called Kṛṣṇānandinī. Similarly, several well-known devotees hold this opinion. However, it is repudiated in the second introductory verse of Kṛṣṇānandinī, which states: so’yaṃ vidyābhūṣaṇo’smān punītām, “May he, Vidyābhūṣaṇa, purify us.”
Gaurapada Dāsa
India
12-22-2014