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 4.31
करुणः,
karuṇaḥ,
This is an example of karuṇa-rasa (lamentation):
taṃ nāga-bhoga-parivītam adṛṣṭa-ceṣṭam ālokya tat-priya-sakhāḥ paśupā bhṛśārtāḥ |
kṛṣṇe’rpitātma-suhṛd-artha-kalatra-kāmā duḥkhānuśoka-bhaya-mūḍha-dhiyo nipetuḥ ||
Observing Kṛṣṇa, who was surrounded by the snake’s body and whose motions were unseen, His dear friends, as well as cowherds who had offered themselves, their friends, their wealth, their wives and their desires to Him, became excessively pained, and slumped. Their mental faculties were benumbed out of distress, sorrow and fear. (Bhāgavatam 10.16.10)