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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अनियम-परिवृत्तोऽनियमे स-नियमः. यथा, भृत्यस्य मम गोविन्द चेतस्य् एव सदा स्फुर. अत्र चेतस्य् एवेति नियमो न वाच्यः.
aniyama-parivṛtto'niyame sa-niyamaḥ. yathā, bhṛtyasya mama govinda cetasy eva sadā sphura. atra cetasy eveti niyamo na vācyaḥ.
(13) The fault called aniyama-parivṛtta (too restrictive) (the word “only” should not have been used) means aniyame sa-niyama (a restriction when no restriction should be made). For example: “O Govinda, always become manifest only in my heart. I depend on You.” Here this limitation should not have been mentioned: “only in my heart.”