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 4.69
(7) [This is a kavi-prauḍhokti-siddha alaṅkāra that gives rise to a vastu-dhvani,]
gāḍhāliṅgana-dānāya harau samupasarpati |
niryāti hṛdayān mānas tanvyāḥ pīḍana-bhīr iva ||
gāḍha-āliṅgana—a deep embrace; dānāya—in order to give; harau samupasarpati—when Hari approaches; niryāti—goes away; hṛdayāt—from the heart; mānaḥ—the pique; tanvyāḥ—of a slender woman; pīḍana-bhīḥ—one who has fear from a squeeze; iva—like.
When Hari approaches a slender woman to deeply embrace her, the pique of that woman flees from her heart as if it were afraid of being squeezed out. (adapted from Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 66)
atrotprekṣayā pratyāliṅganādi tasmai tayā dattam iti vastu.
Here the utprekṣā ornament (the fanciful assumption that the pique was as if afraid and went away) suggests this idea (vastu-dhvani): “She reciprocated with a hug and so on.”