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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Text 2.4
अर्थस्यापि व्यञ्जकताम् आह,
arthasyāpi vyañjakatām āha,
He states that even a meaning can be suggestive:
sarveṣāṃ prāyaśo’rthānāṃ vyañjakatvam apīṣyate ||2.7ab||
sarveṣām—all; prāyaśaḥ—for the most part; arthānām—of the meanings; vyañjakatvam—the suggestiveness; api—also; iṣyate—is desired.
For the most part, all types of meanings can be suggestive.
prāyaśo vaktr-ādi-vaiśiṣṭye satīty arthaḥ.
“For the most part” means: “when there is a specialty of the speaker, and so forth.”
Commentary:
Mammaṭa did not write a vṛtti here. Conventional figurative usage (rūḍhi-lakṣaṇā) does not inherently gives rise to an implied sense (2.17). The “specialties” are the topic of the next chapter (3.2-3).
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