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 10.21
एकस्य बहूपमानत्वे मालोपमा. तत्राभिन्ने साधर्म्ये यथा,
ekasya bahūpamānatve mālopamā. tatrābhinne sādharmye yathā,
Mālopamā (a series of similes) occurs when many similes occur in one sentence. It has two varieties: Either the common attribute of each upamāna is the same or the common attributes are different. This is an example of the first variety:
kumudvatīva śītāṃśoḥ ketakīva manobhuvaḥ |
nalinīva raver āsīn manojñā rādhikā hareḥ ||
Like a night lotus is charming to the moon, like a ketakī flower is charming to Cupid, and like a daytime lotus is charming to the sun, Rādhikā is charming to Hari.
Commentary:
This is Mammaṭa’s example:
anayeneva rājya-śrīr dainyeneva manasvitā |
mamlau sātha viṣādena padminīva himāmbhasā ||“Like royal splendor, through injustice and corruption, like high-mindedness, through wretchedness, and like a lotus, through frost, she has withered, through sorrow” (Kāvya-prakāśa, verse 410).