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 7.151
यथा,
yathā,
This is an example of a proper usage of a vyabhicāri-bhāva which is adverse to the rasa,
vicārya dharmaṃ kula-pālikānāṃ kṛṣṇān nivṛttiṃ prati yāti yāvat |
nipīya vaṃśī-dhvanim ambujākṣī vibhāti tāvac calad-antarāsau ||
[A gopī talks to her friend about her own group leader:] The lotus-eyed girl is resplendent while her heart his moved by imbibing the sound of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, as long as, reflecting upon the moral duty of the female leaders of the community, she does not fall for Him.
atra mati-bādhakatayautsykya-varṇanaṃ śṛṅgāra-puṣṭi-kṛt.
Here the description of eagerness (a vyabhicāri-bhāva) as a suppressor of the vyabhicāri-bhāva called mati (ascertaining a meaning based on the scriptures) makes the enhancement of śṛṅgāra-rasa.
Commentary:
According to Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, the verse is said with tongue in cheek. This is a form of reverse figurative usage (viparīta-lakṣaṇā). Moreover, here mati is suppressed in the sense that it is negated.