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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[Here the togetherness of two contradictory rasas is not faulty because of a mutual comparison:]
राधा शान्तिर् इवोन्निद्रं निर्निमेषेक्षणं च माम् ।
कुर्वती ध्यान-लग्नं च वासयत्य् अद्रि-कन्दरे ॥
rādhā śāntir ivonnidraṃ nirnimeṣekṣaṇaṃ ca mām |
kurvatī dhyāna-lagnaṃ ca vāsayaty adri-kandare ||
Rādhā is like peacefulness: While keeping Me awake, causing My eyes to not blink, and making Me fixed in meditation, She induces Me to stay in the tunnel of a cave. (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 4.8.69)
atra prakṛta-rater anubhāva-sāmyena śānto vivakṣitaḥ.
In this example, śānta-rasa is intended to be expressed in terms of a similarity with anubhāvas of the contextual rati.