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 7.14
ग्राम्यम् अविदग्ध-प्रयुक्तम्. कृष्णस् तव कटिं वीक्ष्य चित्रे चित्तार्पितोऽभवत्. अत्र कटि-शब्दः.
grāmyam avidagdha-prayuktam. kṛṣṇas tava kaṭiṃ vīkṣya citre cittārpito'bhavat. atra kaṭi-śabdaḥ.
(12) The fault called grāmya (vulgar) (either rustic or obscene) means the usage of a meaning that is not clever: “Amazing girl, upon seeing your buttocks Kṛṣṇa became transfixed.” In this example the word kaṭi (buttocks) is obscene.
Commentary:
In a similar example, Kavikarṇapūra says the word kaṭi should be replaced by śroṇi (hips, buttocks) (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 10.15).