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 2.31
विशिष्टे लक्षणा नैवम् ॥ २.१८c ॥
viśiṣṭe lakṣaṇā naivam ||2.18c||
viśiṣṭe—in the result (“what is characterized”); lakṣaṇā—Indication; na—is not; evam—in this way.
In this way, Indication does not occur in the result.
evam ukta-yuktyā.
“In this way” means “by the aforesaid logical reasoning.”
Commentary:
Narahari Sarasvatī Tīrtha elucidates the above sūtra as follows: lakṣyatva-prayojanatvayor bhinna-viṣayatvena tad-ubhayakam ekasya na sambhavatīti bhāvaḥ, “Since the indicated sense and the purpose are not in the same scope, both of them together cannot possibly relate to one thing” (Bāla-cittānurañjinī 2.18).