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...

एक-शास्त्र-प्रसिद्धम् अप्रतीतम्। आशयो दलितो यस्य योगेन स हरिं व्रजेत्। अत्राशय-शब्दो वासनार्थकतया योग-शास्त्र-मात्र-प्रसिद्धः।

eka-śāstra-prasiddham apratītam. āśayo dalito yasya yogena sa hariṃ vrajet. atrāśaya-śabdo vāsanārthakatayā yoga-śāstra-mātra-prasiddhaḥ.

(11) The fault called apratīta (not understood) refers to a meaning which is well-known in only one field of knowledge. This is an example: āśayo dalito yasya yogena sa hariṃ vrajet, “He whose subconscious impressions have become torn apart by yoga goes to Hari.” Here the word āśaya in the sense of vāsanā (subconscious impression) is only well-known in the books on the eightfold yoga system.

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