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...
Text 7.106
यथा वा,
yathā vā,
This is another example of prakāśita-viruddha (contradicted by an implied sense):
sa deśaḥ sakhi kutrāsti yatra priya-viyogataḥ |
candrāṃśu-nicayaḥ subhru naiva dāvānalāyate ||
O sakhī, tell me a place where moonrays never feel like a conflagration as a result of separation from a beloved? (adapted from Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 10.114)
atra yasmin vallabhāntaraṃ labhyata iti viruddhaṃ pradarśyate.
Here, this meaning “a place where another lover can be had” is implied in a contradictory way.