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 9.21
तस्य दिङ्-मात्रम् उदाह्रियते,
tasya diṅ-mātram udāhriyate,
Now merely the general idea of yamaka is shown:
mano jahāra prati mā kṛta-kopā nitambinī |
manoja-hāra-pratimā mamāsau vāma-vīkṣitaiḥ ||
manaḥ—heart; jahāra—she stole; prati—toward; mā—Me (mā = mām); kṛta-kopā—she by whom anger was made; nitambinī—she who has large and handsome hips; mano-ja—of Cupid (“born in the heart”) hāra—of the battle[1]; pratimā—she who is the symbol; mama—My; asau—she; vāma—crooked; vīkṣitaiḥ—by means of glances.
She stole My heart with her crooked glances. She was angry at Me. Her hips are large and handsome. She symbolizes a battle of Cupid.
Commentary:
The yamaka consists in the first and third lines: The sounds in the first line are repeated in the third, but with a difference in meaning.