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 7.9
मानं मुञ्च हि वामाङ्गि प्रसादं कुरु देवि च। अत्र हि-च-शब्दौ वृत्त-पूर्ति-मात्र-कारित्वान् निरर्थकौ।
mānaṃ muñca hi vāmāṅgi prasādaṃ kuru devi ca. atra hi-ca-śabdau vṛtta-pūrti-mātra-kāritvān nirarthakau.
(7) This illustrates the fault called nirarthaka (meaningless): mānaṃ muñca hi vāmāṅgi prasādaṃ kuru devi ca, “Young woman with a beautiful body, let go of your pique and be gracious.” Here the words hi and ca are used only to fill the meter, therefore each one of those two words is meaningless.