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 9.19
तेनायं पञ्चधा मतः ॥ ९.८२d ॥
tenāyaṃ pañcadhā mataḥ || 9.82d ||
Therefore this alliteration, lāṭa anuprāsa, has five varieties.
ayaṃ lāṭa-priyaḥ. saṅkalanayā tv anuprāsas tridhā cheka-vṛtti-lāṭa-pūrvakatvāt.
Thus there are three broad kinds of alliteration: cheka, vṛtti, and lāṭa.