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 4.68
(6) [This verse illustrates a kavi-prauḍhokti-siddha vastu-dhvani that occasions an alaṅkāra-dhvani,]
क्षपासु शशभृत्-कान्त्या प्रकाशितम् इदं जगत् |
धवली-कुरुते कीर्तिर् अनिशं तव माधव ||
kṣapāsu śaśabhṛt-kāntyā prakāśitam idaṃ jagat |
dhavalī-kurute kīrtir aniśaṃ tava mādhava ||
kṣapāsu—on nights; śaśa-bhṛt—of the moon (“it has a rabbit”); kāntyā—by the effulgence; prakāśitam—is illumined; idam—this; jagat—world; dhavalī-kurute—makes white; kīrtiḥ—the fame; aniśam—continuously (or in such a way that there is no night); tava—of Yours; mādhava—O Mādhava.
During the nights, the universe is illumined by moonrays. O Mādhava, Your renown forever makes it white.
atra vastunā candra-kiraṇāpekṣayā kīrter adhika-kāla-prakāśitvād vyatirekaḥ.
Here a vastu (the implied idea that His renown is a shining substance) suggests the vyatireka ornament (contrast): His renown shines longer than moonrays do.