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 7.128
ग्राम्यत्वं हास्य-कारिषु. यथा,
grāmyatvaṃ hāsya-kāriṣu. yathā,
The fault called grāmya (colloquialism) is not faulty in humorous statements. For instance:
haiyaṅgavīna-piṇḍo vā dṛśyate śaśi-maṇḍalaḥ |
dugdha-dhārā ivaitasmāt prapatanti gabhastayaḥ ||
haiyaṅgavīna—of fresh butter (or ghee) made from one-day-old milk); piṇḍaḥ—a mass; vā—like; dṛśyate—is seen; śaśi—of the moon; maṇḍalaḥ—the orb; dugdha—of milk; dhārāḥ—outpours; iva—like; etasmāt—from this; prapatanti—fall; gabhastayaḥ—the rays.
The moon looks like a mass of fresh butter. The moonrays fall from the moon as if they were jets of milk. (adapted from Sāhitya-darpaṇa 7.21)
iyaṃ vidūṣakasyoktiḥ.
These are the words of a jester.
Commentary:
According to Śeṣarāja Śarmā, here the colloquial word (grāmya) is dugdha-dhārāḥ (jets of milk) yet it is not faulty because of the context (Candrakalā).