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 10.25
वाच्ये गम्ये च सा साम्ये एकदेश-विवर्तिनी ॥
vācye gamye ca sā sāmye ekadeśa-vivartinī ||
When a similarity is stated in one place and implied in another, that is eka-deśa-vivartinī upamā (partial overall simile).
Commentary:
This is marked as a sūtra in all editions of Sāhitya-kaumudī. Here Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa incorporates the topic of “eka-deśa-vivartinī upamā” from Sāhitya-darpaṇa (10.24-25).