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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भाति यद्यपि गोविन्द तवालङ्कृति-सञ्चयः |
तथापि भूषण-ज्येष्ठः प्रेष्ठः कौस्तुभ एव मे ||
bhāti yadyapi govinda tavālaṅkṛti-sañcayaḥ |
tathāpi bhūṣaṇa-jyeṣṭhaḥ preṣṭhaḥ kaustubha eva me ||
O Govinda, although Your ornaments are resplendent, nevertheless only the Kaustubha, the eldest of adornments, is dearest to me.
atra paryāyasya.
Here the symmetry of synonyms is broken (“adornments” should be changed to “ornaments”).