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 2.25
तथा हि,
tathā hi,
The explanation is as follows:
nābhidhā samayābhāvāt ||2.15c||
na—not; abhidhā—Denotation; samaya—of assignation; abhāvāt—because of the absence.
It is not Denotation, because there was no assignation.
“gaṅgāyāṃ ghoṣaḥ” ity-ādau śaityādayo dharmās taṭādau pratīyante, tatra gaṅgādi-śabdānāṃ nābhidhā saṅketābhāvāt.
In the example “the cowherd settlement on the Ganges,” for instance, attributes such as coolness are perceived in the shore. There is no Denotation of the word Ganges in that sense, because there was no assignation as such.
Commentary:
The word gaṅgā was never given the literal sense of “coolness” or “purity” in any dictionary, and so on.
Other Kavyashastra Concepts:
Other concepts within the broader category of Hinduism context and sources.
Literal sense, Figurative Expression.