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 3.4
शब्द-प्रमाण-वेद्यो'र्थो व्यनक्त्य् अर्थान्तरं यतः |
अर्थस्य व्यञ्जकत्वे तच् छब्दस्य सहकारिता ||3।23||
śabda-pramāṇa-vedyo'rtho vyanakty arthāntaraṃ yataḥ |
arthasya vyañjakatve tac chabdasya sahakāritā ||3.23||
śabda-pramāṇa—through the means of valid knowledge, the word; vedyaḥ—which is to be known; arthaḥ—a meaning; vyanakti—hints at; artha-antaram—another sense; yataḥ—since; arthasya vyañjakatve—in the fact that a meaning is suggestive; tat—in that; śabdasya saha-kāritā—the word is an assistant.
Since the meaning, which can be known only by means of the word, hints at another sense, the word is an assistant in the meaning’s being suggestive.
yasmāc chabda-bodhya evārtho’rthāntaraṃ vyañjayaty ataḥ śabdasyāpi tatropakāritā, kintv arthasya tatra prādhānyād ārthī vyañjaneti bhaṇitiḥ.
Since the meaning, which can be understood only by means of the word, is suggestive of another sense, even the word is helpful in that regard. However, the gist is that Suggestiveness related to a meaning (ārthī vyañjanā) is so called because the suggestive meaning is of primary importance in that matter. (A synonym can be used without altering the implied sense, thus the suggestive word itself is secondary.)