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 9.43 [necklace diagram]
हार-बन्धः,
hāra-bandhaḥ,
This exemplifies the necklace diagram:
kuru taruṇi ruṣaṃ nopatāpa-prapanne bhaja nija-vijanaṃ tāra-hāra-sphurantī |
stana-kanaka-nagau śāta-pāta-prataptāṃ tanum anu tanutāṃ bhāva-śābalyavattām ||
kuru—do make; taruṇi—O young woman; ruṣam—anger; na—not; upatāpa—affliction; prapanne—[Me,] who have attained; bhaja—you should experience (i.e. go to); nija—your own;vijanam—the solitary place; tāra—of pure pearls[1]; hāra—with a necklace; sphurantī—being resplendent; stana—[in the form] of the breasts; kanaka—golden; nagau—the two mountains (“it does not go”); śāta—of happiness; pāta—by occurrences (lit. falls); prataptām—[the body,] scorched; tanum—the body; anu—toward; tanutām—should make; bhāva-śābalya-vattām—the stated of having bhāva-śābalya (a clash between vyabhicāri-bhāvas, or a clash between sāttvikabhāvas such as horripilation, perspiration and trembling[2]).
[Hari speaks to a gopī in a pique:] Girl, do not be angry at Me. I am feeling the pain. You are resplendent with a necklace of pure pearls. Go to our secret meeting place. The two golden mountains of your breasts should cause the body, heated by a repeated fall of happiness, to experience a friction of emotions.
The Necklace
