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 7.148
अथ क्वचिद् अदोशाश् च भवन्तीत्य् आह,
atha kvacid adośāś ca bhavantīty āha,
Now he says that on occasion a fault is not a fault:
na doṣaḥ sva-padenoktāv api sañcāriṇaḥ kvacit ||7.63ab||
Even when a vyabhicāri-bhāva is stated by name, sometimes the usage of that word is not faulty.
yatra sva-vyāpāreṇa sañcārī bodhayitum aśakyas tatra sva-śabdenāsau vācyaḥ.
A vyabhicāri-bhāva can be stated with the word that denotes it when the vyabhicāri-bhāva would not bring about an understanding of itself by its effect.