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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स्थायिनो यथा,
sthāyino yathā,
(3) This shows the fault of mentioning a sthāyi-bhāva by name:
candanānila-candrāṃśu-puṃs-kokila-kala-svanaiḥ |
mādhavyāṃ rajanau rādhā-kṛṣṇayo ratir aidhata ||
On springtime nights, Rādhā’s love and Kṛṣṇa’s love blazed due to the breeze from sandalwood trees; due to moonrays; and due to the sweet chirping of male cuckoos. (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 10.129)
atra rati-śabdaḥ. sthāyitvāpratītau tu na doṣāya. yathā, bhagavati ratir astu me mumūrṣoḥ ity-ādi.
Here the word rati (love) is faulty (Kavikarṇapūra corrects the verse by changing rati to prīti, love). However, the word rati is not faulty when there is no perception of it as a sthāyi-bhāva. For instance: bhagavati ratir astu me mumūrṣoḥ, “May I, who seek liberation, have affection for the Lord” (Bhāgavatam 1.9.39).