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 4.57
मुख्ये रसेऽपि तेऽङ्गित्वं प्राप्नुवन्ति कदाचन ॥ ४.३७ab ॥
mukhye rase'pi te'ṅgitvaṃ prāpnuvanti kadācana || 4.37ab ||
mukhye rase api—although the rasa is primary; te—they; aṅgitvam—the state of being the main thing; prāpnuvanti—obtain; kadācana—sometimes.
Even when the rasa is predominant, sometimes they acquire predominance.
te bhāva-śānty-ādayaḥ. aṅgitvaṃ prādhānyam. tac ca teṣv āpātād eva karagraha-pravṛtta-rāja-bhṛtya-vat. tad evam alaṅkāryasya rasāder asaṃlakṣya-kramasya vyaṅgyasya nirūpaṇenālakṣyakrama-vyaṅgyo dhvanir darśitaḥ.
“They” means bhāva-śānti, bhāvodaya, bhāva-sandhi, and bhāva-śābalya. The word aṅgitvam means prādhānyam (predominance), and that predominance is only because it happens to fall on them, as in the case of a king’s servant whose wedding the king attends.
By thus describing an alaṅkārya, an implied sense, such as a rasa, whose sequence is not quite noticed, the type of poetry called dhvani in which there is an implied sense whose sequence is not noticed (alakṣya-krama-vyaṅgya) has been illustrated.