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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विद्या शास्त्रं तद्-विरुद्धो यथा, सदा स्नात्वा निशीथिन्यामयं जपति पण्डितः. अत्र ग्रहोपरागं विनार्ध-रात्र-स्नानं धर्म-शास्त्रेण विरुद्धम्.
vidyā śāstraṃ tad-viruddho yathā, sadā snātvā niśīthinyāmayaṃ japati paṇḍitaḥ. atra grahoparāgaṃ vinārdha-rātra-snānaṃ dharma-śāstreṇa viruddham.
(10) The term vidyā-viruddha means “contrary to book knowledge.” For instance: “This scholar always does japa after bathing at night” (adapted from Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 237). The fault occurs here because bathing in the middle of the night is contrary to books on moral conduct. The exception is bathing during either a solar eclipse or a lunar eclipse.