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 10.29 [Upameyopamā]
3. Upameyopamā
विपर्यास उपमेयोपमा तयोः ॥ १०.९१cd ॥
viparyāsa upameyopamā tayoḥ || 10.91cd ||
If the upamāna and the upameya in one sentence become the upameya and the upamāna in the second sentence, that is upameyopamā (mutual comparison).
tayor upamānopameyayoś cet parivṛttir arthād vākya-dvaye syāt tadopameyopamā. (The translation of the elaboration was incorporated in the translation of the sūtra.)