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 9.49
तथा शब्दार्थयोर् अयम् ॥ ९.८६d ॥
tathā śabdārthayor ayam || 9.86d ||
It also relates to both sound and meaning.
Commentary:
The previous examples illustrated punar-uktavad-ābhāsa which did not involve the meaning of the synonym. That kind of punar-uktavad-ābhāsa is an ornament of sound proper. In the next verse, the punar-uktavad-ābhāsa which is an ornament of both sound and meaning is illustrated. Narahari Sarasvatī Tīrtha explains the sense of the above sūtra as follows: The punar-uktavad-ābhāsa which is an ornament of both sound and meaning takes place in the same way the punar-uktavad-ābhāsa which is only an ornament of sound occurs (by a semblance of the repeated usage of the synonym): yathā kevalasya śabdasyālaṅkārāḥ tathā śabdārthayor ubhayor apīty arthaḥ (Bāla-cittānurañjinī).