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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(9) [This verse shows instances of aślīla (unpleasant) in parts of words:]
यस्यातिपेलवैर् वाक्यैर् मनो’स्माकं विपूयते |
कृष्णार्थी स कथं दुष्टैर् अभिप्रेतो भविष्यति ||
yasyātipelavair vākyair mano’smākaṃ vipūyate |
kṛṣṇārthī sa kathaṃ duṣṭair abhipreto bhaviṣyati ||
How could a person who desires Kṛṣṇa and by whose very tender words our hearts are purified possibly be approached by bad people? atra pela-pūya-preta-śabdāḥ kramād vrīḍādi-bodhakāḥ.
Here the word pela (testicle) is shameful (vrīḍā-dāyī aślīla), the word pūya (pus) generates disgust (jugupsā-dāyī aślīla), and the word preta (departed, dead) makes one perceive inauspiciousness (amaṅgala-dāyī aślīla).