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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यथा,
त्वं कासि शान्ता किम् इहान्तरिक्षे द्रष्टुं परं ब्रह्म कुतस् तताक्षी |
अस्यातिरूपात् किम् इवाकुलात्मा रम्भे समारम्भि भिदा स्मरेण ||
yathā,
tvaṃ kāsi śāntā kim ihāntarikṣe draṣṭuṃ paraṃ brahma kutas tatākṣī |
asyātirūpāt kim ivākulātmā rambhe samārambhi bhidā smareṇa ||
tvam—you; kā—who?; asi—are; śāntā—at peace; kim—why; iha—here; antarikṣe—in the middle of the sky; draṣṭum—to see; param brahma—Para-Brahman; kutaḥ—why; tata—are expanded; akṣī—one whose eyes; asya—of His; atirūpāt—because of the great beauty; kim iva—some indescribable; ākula-ātmā—overwhelmed heart; rambhe—O Rambhā; samārambhi—has begun; bhidā—[Cupid,] the piercer; smareṇa—because of Cupid.
—How are you?
—I am at peace.
—Why are you here, in the middle of the sky?
—To see the Absolute Truth.
—Why are your eyes wide-open?
—Because of His great beauty. Rambhā, owing to Cupid, who rends my mind, my heart is about to become completely overwhelmed. (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 4.8.70)
atra, asyātirūpāt iti tayor antar adbhuto varṇitaḥ.
Here adbhuta-rasa, in the form of asyātirūpāt (because of His great beauty), is described in between those two rasas.