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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एवं व्यञ्जनां निरूप्य तद्-आश्रयम् आह,

evaṃ vyañjanāṃ nirūpya tad-āśrayam āha,

After discoursing on Suggestiveness in this way, he mentions its basis (the means of communication):

tad-yukto vyañjakaḥ śabdaḥ ||2.20a||

tat-yuktaḥ—endowed with it (vyañjanā); vyañjakaḥ—suggestive; śabdaḥ—a word.

A suggestive word is that which is endowed with it.

tayā vyañjanayā yuktaḥ śabdo vyañjaka ucyate.

A word endowed with Suggestiveness is called a suggestive word.

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