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 9.42 [sarvatobhadra]
सर्वतो-भद्रः,
sarvato-bhadraḥ,
This illustrates the sarvato-bhadra diagram (good on each side):
dhārāsāra-rasā rādhā rāsa-lāsyasya lāsa-rā |
sālākārara-kālāsā rasya-rasy-asya rasya-ra ||
dhārā—of showers of rain; āsāra—is like the hard shower[1]; rasā—the rasa in whom; rādhā—Rādhā; rāsa-lāsyasya—to the rāsa dance; lāsa—splendor; rā—who gives; sāla—most excellent (sāla = sāra); ākāra—a shape; ra—that gives; kāla—during the time [i.e. youth]; ā-āsā—whose shining is complete; rasya—who are suitable for rasas (rasya = rasebhyo hita); rasi—by impassioned women (rasi = rasin = ramaṇa-para); asya—O You who should be approached; rasya—of relishable [moments]; ra—O provider.
O giver of relishable moments! O You who should be approached by sexy women who are favorable for rasa! Rādhā’s rasa is as abundant as a shower of rain. She gives splendor to the Rāsa dance. Her beauty is most perfect during youth, a time that makes an outstanding body. (Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 7.81)
Sarvatobhadra
(good on each side)
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
Amara-koṣa states: dhārā-sampāta āsāraḥ, “Āsāra means a swift shower (hard rain)” (1.3.11). Thus āsāra already means dhārā-sampāta. The term dhārāsāra is a common redundancy like barhi-barha, “the peacock feather of a peacock (lit. of one who has peacock feathers).”