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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अङ्गिन्य् अङ्गत्वम् आप्तौ यौ तौ न दुष्टौ परस्परम् ॥ ७.६५cd ॥
aṅginy aṅgatvam āptau yau tau na duṣṭau parasparam || 7.65cd ||
aṅgini—in a predominant one; aṅgatvam—the state of being subservient; āptau—have attained; yau—which; tau—the two; na—not; duṣṭau—faulty; parasparam—mutually.
Two mutually contradictory rasas which become subservient to a predominant rasa are not faulty.
nisarga-viruddhayor api bhṛtyayo rāja-sevāyām iva tathā-bhūtayor apy aṅgayor aṅgi-puṣṭau saṅgatir na doṣāya.
As engaging two servants, although their natures are mutually incompatible, in the service of the king poses no problem, so the togetherness of two mutually incompatible rasas which are secondary elements of a text is not faulty when they enhance the contextual rasa.