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 4.54
[This illustrates bhāvodaya (the rise of a vyabhicāri-bhāva):]
आली-जनैर् मण्डन-केलि-काले विभूष्यमाणा वृषभानु-पुत्री |
उरो-गते नील-मणीन्द्र-हारे स्विन्ना स-कम्पा पुलकाकुलासीत् ||
ālī-janair maṇḍana-keli-kāle vibhūṣyamāṇā vṛṣabhānu-putrī |
uro-gate nīla-maṇīndra-hāre svinnā sa-kampā pulakākulāsīt ||
ālī-janaiḥ—by the girlfriends; maṇḍana-keli-kāle—at the time of the fun pastime of decoration; vibhūṣyamāṇā—who was being adorned; vṛṣabhānu-putrī—Vṛṣabhānu’s daughter; uraḥ-gate—went on the chest; nīla-maṇīndra-hāre—when the necklace of blue diamonds; svinnā—perspired; sa-kampā—trembled; pulaka-ākulā—pervaded by horripilation; āsīt—became.
When the necklace of blue diamonds was placed on Her chest, Rādhā, being adorned by Her friends during the fun pastime of decoration, perspired, trembled, and had goosebumps. (Alaṅkārakaustubha 5.305)
atra harṣodayaḥ.
The verse features a rise of harṣa (joy).