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 10.12
एतद्-विलोपे क्विप्-समास-गा ॥ १०.८९d ॥
etad-vilope kvip-samāsa-gā || 10.89d ||
The elliptical simile characterized by the ellipsis of both the common attribute and the word of comparison has two subvarieties: It relates either to the suffix [k]vi[p] or to a compound.
etayor dvayor dharma-vādyor lope kvib-gā samāsa-gā ceti dvedhā. (The translation of the elaboration was incorporated in the translation of the sūtra.)