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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(5) [This illustrates kaṣṭa-kalpanā-vibhāva-vyakti (the manifestation of a vibhāva is understood with difficulty):]
manute na sukhaṃ kiñcit tanute moham ulbaṇam |
dhunute dhṛtim etasya kiṃ bhāvi na vibhāvyate ||
He does not think about any kind of happiness, he displays an intense bewilderment, and he shakes off all composure. What will happen to him? It cannot be conceived. (adapted from Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 326)
atrāsukha-mananādīnāṃ karuṇādāv api sambhavāt kāminī-rūpo vibhāvaḥ kaṣṭena gamyate.
In this example, since those states of mind are also possible in karuṇa-rasa (lamentation), a vibhāva, in the form of a beautiful woman (an uddīpana), is understood with difficulty.