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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रुद्रेण च,
rudreṇa ca,
It was also stated by Rudra:
vāmatā durlabhatvaṃ ca strīṇāṃ yā ca nivāraṇā |
tad eva pañca-bāṇasya manye paramam āyudham ||
I consider contrariness, being hard to get, and rejection women’s topmost weapons related to Cupid. (Śṛṅgāra-tilaka 2.30) (Prīti-sandarbha 279)