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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स एष वैहासिकता-विनोदैर् व्रजस्य हासोद्गम-संविधाता ।
फणीश्वरेणाद्य विकृष्यमाणः करोति हा नः परिदेवनानि ॥
sa eṣa vaihāsikatā-vinodair vrajasya hāsodgama-saṃvidhātā |
phaṇīśvareṇādya vikṛṣyamāṇaḥ karoti hā naḥ paridevanāni ||
saḥ—He; eṣaḥ—this one (present before the eyes); vaihāsikatā—by being a comedian; vinodaiḥ—by much mirth; vrajasya—of the cowherd community; hāsa—of joy; udgama—of a rise; saṃvidhātā—the maker; phaṇi-īśvareṇa—by the king of snakes; adya—now; vikṛṣyamāṇaḥ—being dragged; karoti—makes; hā—alas; naḥ—our; paridevanāni—lamentations.
Alas, He who caused the cowherd community to have an upsurge of joy by the mirth of being a comic is now occasioning our lamentations by being dragged by Kāliya. (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 4.8.67)
atra smaryamāṇānāṃ hāsyāṅga-bhūtānāṃ vinodānāṃ śokoddīpakatayā karuṇānukūlyān na virodhaḥ.
Since the mirth, which is an aspect of hāsya and is being remembered, inflames the sorrow, hāsya-rasa (laughter) is not contradictory to karuṇa-rasa (lamentation) because the former is favorable to the latter.