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 9.8
एकस्याप्य् असकृत् परः ॥ ९.७९d ॥
ekasyāpy asakṛt paraḥ || 9.79d ||
ekasya—of one [phonemes]; api—even; asakṛt—not a one-time [repetition]; paraḥ—the other one (vṛtti).
The other one consists of a repetitive repetition even of one phoneme.
ekasyānekasya ca vyañjanasya dvir bahu-kṛtvo vā sāmyaṃ vṛtty-anuprāsaḥ.
Vṛtti anuprāsa is two repetitions (three occurrences), or else a manifold repetition, either of one consonant or of multiple consonants.