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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अश्वं मे देहि राजेन्द्रं गजेन्द्रं वा युधिष्ठिर. अत्र गजेन्द्रस्य पूर्वं याचनम् उचितम् इति दुष्क्रमोऽर्थः.
aśvaṃ me dehi rājendraṃ gajendraṃ vā yudhiṣṭhira. atra gajendrasya pūrvaṃ yācanam ucitam iti duṣkramo'rthaḥ.
(5) [This illustrates duṣkrama (bad sequence):] “O Yudhiṣṭhira, give me a horse, or else the most kingly elephant” (adapted from Kāvya-prakāśa verse 260). Here the meanings have a bad sequence: Asking for the elephant first is appropriate.