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...
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यच्-छब्द-सन्निधाव् इदम्-आदीनां लिङ्ग-विभक्ति-भेदेऽपि नैराकाङ्क्ष्यम् एव।
yac-chabda-sannidhāv idam-ādīnāṃ liṅga-vibhakti-bhede'pi nairākāṅkṣyam eva.
The sense is complete (the correlativeness is properly expressed) even when idam, adas, and so on, are juxtaposed to yat in a different gender and case ending:
cakāsti svarṇa-gaurāṅgī yedaṃ bhuvana-bhūṣaṇam |
candraś cakasti yas tena tāpitāḥ pathikāṅganāḥ ||
cakāsti—shines; svarṇa—like gold; gaura—are fair; aṅgī—she whose limbs; yā—who; idam—this; bhuvana-bhūṣaṇam—ornament of the world; candraḥ—the moon; cakasti—shines; yaḥ—which; tena—by it; tāpitāḥ—are afflicted; pathika—of travelers; aṅganāḥ—the women.
A woman (yā) whose limbs are fair like gold: This (idam) is an ornament of the Earth.
The travelers’ wives are afflicted by the radiant moon.