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 10.19
उपमाः सङ्कलयति,
upamāḥ saṅkalayati,
He adds up the varieties of similes:
ekonaviṃśatir luptāḥ pūrṇābhiḥ pañca-viṃśatiḥ ||
There are nineteen kinds of elliptical similes. With the complete similes, the total is twenty-five.
pūrṇābhiḥ ṣaḍbhiḥ saha.
“With the six complete similes.”
Commentary:
Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa created the sūtra and the vṛtti. Mammaṭa simply writes: ekonaviṃśatir luptāḥ pūrṇābhiḥ saha pañca-viṃśatiḥ (Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 409 vṛtti).