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 7.18
यथा वा, अकृता सन्नतिः क्वापि कथं त्वयि हरेः कृपा। अत्र निषेधो विधेयतया न प्रतीयते, तस्य समासेन गौण्यात्।
yathā vā, akṛtā sannatiḥ kvāpi kathaṃ tvayi hareḥ kṛpā. atra niṣedho vidheyatayā na pratīyate, tasya samāsena gauṇyāt.
This is another example of avimṛṣṭa-vidheyāṃśa (not giving proper eminence to an important aspect of the predicate): akṛtā sannatiḥ kvāpi kathaṃ tvayi hareḥ kṛpā, “You never bowed to Hari, so why is His mercy in you?” Here the negation (the first letter in akṛtā) does not stand out because in a compound na[ñ] has become secondary.
Commentary:
When the negative particle, na[ñ] (not), is used, the deciding factor with regard to avimṛṣṭa-vidheyāṃśa is this: Is the sentence an affirmation or a negation? If only a negation is meant to be expressed, then na[ñ] should be predominant: It should not be compounded. Here, the negation of bowing (sannati) is strongly meant to be expressed, therefore akṛtā (not done) should be changed to: na kṛtā (not done). A compound made with na[ñ] is classed as a tatpuruṣa,[1] where only the last word is predominant.