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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Text 9.5
तं विभजति,
taṃ vibhajati,
He subdivides alliteration:
cheka-vṛtti-gato dvidhā ||9.79b||
cheka-vṛtti-gataḥ—known[1] by the name cheka and by the name vṛtti; dvidhā—twofold.
There are two kinds of alliteration: cheka and vṛtti.
cheko vidagdhaḥ. rasa-viṣaya-vyāpāravatī varṇa-racanā vṛttiḥ. tat-prayojyatvāt tad-ānugatyāc ca chekānuprāso vṛtty-anuprāsaś ceti dvi-vidhaḥ saḥ.
Cheka means vidagdha (expert). Vṛtti means an arrangement of phonemes that has a function (vṛtti = vyāpāra) in the scope of a rasa. Thus alliteration has two varieties: cheka anuprāsa, so called because it is used by experts, and vṛtti anuprāsa, so called because it follows a rasa (9.11).