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 9.6
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).