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 4.17
यथा वा,
yathā vā,
This is another example (this verse illustrates Kṛṣṇa’s pūrva-rāga):
kanakādri-niketa-ketakī-kalitā kalpa-kalevara-dyutiḥ |
hṛdi sā mudirāli-medure capalā māṃ kim alaṅkariṣyati ||
kanaka—of gold; adri—is a mountain; niketa—whose abode; ketakī—a ketakī tree; kalitā—endowed with (or made of); kalpa-kalevara—of the desire body (dream body); dyutiḥ—whose splendor; hṛdi—in the heart (on the chest); sā—She; mudira—of clouds; āli—like a mass; medure—[the chest,] which is glossy; capalā—fickle (or Lakṣmī); mām—Me; kim—whether?; alaṅkariṣyati—She will adorn.
The tones of the splendor of Her perfect body resemble a budding ketakī tree on a golden mountain. When will She, fickle like lightning, adorn the moonsoon cloud of My glossy chest? (Vidagdha-mādhava 2.26)