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...

[Here tat (the pronoun tam, him) has the sense of anubhūtārtha (someone perceived earlier or something experienced before):]

कदा तम् अहम् ईक्षिष्ये सदानन्द-मयं गुरुम् ||

kadā tam aham īkṣiṣye sadānanda-mayaṃ gurum ||

kadā—when; tam—him; aham īkṣiṣye—will I see; sadā—always; ānanda-mayaṃ gurum—teacher (or spiritual teacher).

When will I see him, a teacher who is always blissful?

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