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 7.129
हर्ष-शोकाद्य्-आधिक्ये न्यून-पदत्वं च. यथा,
harṣa-śokādy-ādhikye nyūna-padatvaṃ ca. yathā,
The fault called nyūna-pada (missing word) (7.60) is not a fault when there is great joy, or great sorrow, and so on. For example:
sa-smitā mṛga-śāvākṣī gāḍham āliṅgitā mayā |
mā mā meti yad abrūta tan me kṛntati mānasam ||
Her eyes mimic the eyes of a fawn. She, who was smiling when I was deeply embracing her, said: “don’t, don’t, don’t…” That tears my heart. (adapted from Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 310)
atra pīḍayeti padaṃ nyūnam. tasya cānanda-magnatāpratyāyayatvād guṇatvam eva.
Here the verb “squeeze” is missing, and that is only a literary quality because it makes one perceive her absorption in great pleasure.