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 4.36
अद्भुतः,
adbhutaḥ,
This verse is an instance of adbhuta-rasa (wonderment):
citraṃ bataitad ekena vapuṣā yugapat pṛthak |
gṛheṣu dvy-aṣṭa-sāhasraṃ striya eka udāvahat ||
[Nārada thinks:] Wow! This is amazing: With one body, He simultaneously married sixteen thousand women in separate mansions. (Bhāgavatam 10.69.1) (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 4.2.7)
Commentary:
This is Mammaṭa’s example:
citraṃ mahān eṣa batāvatāraḥ kva kāntir eṣābhinavaiva bhaṅgiḥ |
lokottaraṃ dhairyam aho prabhāvaḥ kāpy ākṛtir nūtana eṣa sargaḥ ||“[Bali sees Vāmana’s transformation as Trivikrama[1] :] Wow, this one is an amazing Avatāra. What a wonder! What an effulgence! That is a new trick! His gravity has taken another dimension! Ho, His might is going through the roof! Now that is a form! This is some new kickstart.” (Kāvya-prakāśa verse 43)
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
citram iti, vāmanam uddiśya baler uktiḥ (Uddyota).