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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क्रमेणोदाहरणानि,
krameṇodāharaṇāni,
Examples are given in order. This shows bhāva-śānti,
mlānāsi kiṃ preyasi māmakīnaṃ hṛt pṛccha pṛcchāmi tad ity uro’syāḥ |
spṛśann idaṃ svastham iti sma kṛṣṇo bravīti sā namra-mukhī babhūva ||
mlānā asi kim—why are You languid?; preyasi—O beloved; māmakīnam—My; hṛd—heart; pṛccha—ask; pṛcchāmi—I ask; tat—it; iti—(end of quotation); uraḥ—chest; asyāḥ—Her; spṛśan—while touching; idam—this; sva-stham—healthy (“abiding in itself”); iti—in this way; sma—(used for expressing the past); kṛṣṇaḥ—Kṛṣṇa; bravīti—He says; sā—She; namra-mukhī—one whose face is lowered; babhūva—became.
Rādhā, My love, why are You languid? “Ask My heart.” Touching Her chest, Kṛṣṇa said: “I am asking it… It is healthy (svastha) (as a double meaning: It stays by itself).” She lowered Her face.
(Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 5.306) atra viṣāda-śāntiḥ.
In this verse, there is a cessation of viṣāda (dejection).