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 9.6
तयोः स्वरूपम् आह,
tayoḥ svarūpam āha,
He sequentially describes the natures of those two:
so’nekasya sakṛt pūrvaḥ ||9.79c||
saḥ—that [alliteration]; anekasya—of more than one [phoneme]; sakṛt—one time[1] [similarity]; pūrvaḥ—the first one (cheka).
The first one consists of one repetition of more than one phoneme.
anekasyārthād vyañjanasya sakṛt sāmyaṃ chekānuprāsaḥ.
Cheka anuprāsa consists of a one-time repetition of more than one consonant.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
anekasya, arthāt vyañjanasya sakṛd eka-vāraṃ sādṛśyaṃ chekānuprāsaḥ (Kāvya-prakāśa 9.75).