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 4.80
पदेऽप्य् अन्ये ॥ ४.४२च्२ ॥
pade'py anye || 4.42c2 ||
The other dhvanis also occur in a word.
dvy-utthaṃ vinānye’rthāntara-saṅkramita-vācyādyāḥ saptadaśadhvanayaḥ pade vākye ca syuḥ. vyañjakatve padasya prādhānyāt tan-mūlako dhvani-vyapadeśaḥ.
Except dvi-śakti-bhū dhvani, the seventeen other dhvanis occur either in a word or in a sentence. A dhvani is called pada-gata (based on a word) because the word is the main thing, when the word is suggestive.