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 7.36
(14) [This is an instance of kliṣṭa (hard to understand) in a sentence:]
आकल्पस्य न कस्यैतां विलोक्य मुर-वैरिणः |
रज्यत्य् अपूर्व-घटनां मानसं किल माधुरीम् ||
ākalpasya na kasyaitāṃ vilokya mura-vairiṇaḥ |
rajyaty apūrva-ghaṭanāṃ mānasaṃ kila mādhurīm ||
ākalpasya—of the ornament; na—not; kasya—whose; etām—this; vilokya—after seeing; mura-vairiṇaḥ—of Kṛṣṇa (“Mura’s enemy”); rajyati—it delights; apūrva—is unprecedented; ghaṭanām—[the sweetness,] due to which the arrangement; mānasam—mind; kila—indeed; mādhurīm—the sweetness.
The mind does not become delighted upon seeing the unprecedented sweetness of which ornament of Murāri?
atrākalpasya mādhurīṃ vilokya kasya mānasaṃ na rajyatīti sambandhaḥ kliṣṭaḥ.
Here the syntactical connection is difficult to understand (because the words in the verse are not in proper sequence): “Whose mind does not become delighted upon seeing the unprecedented sweetness of Murāri’s ornament?”