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 8.16
समता च प्रक्रान्त-प्रकृति-प्रत्ययाविपर्यासेनार्थस्य विसंवादिता-विरहः. स च प्रक्रम-भङ्गाख्य-दोषाभावरूपत्वान् न गुणः.
samatā ca prakrānta-prakṛti-pratyayāviparyāsenārthasya visaṃvāditā-virahaḥ. sa ca prakrama-bhaṅgākhya-doṣābhāvarūpatvān na guṇaḥ.
The artha-guṇa samatā consists in the absence of a lack of correspondence with the meaning by not changing the kind of suffix or word base that had been used. Samatā is actually not a guṇa because it is the absence of the fault called prakrama-bhaṅga (broken symmetry) (7.76-81).