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...

श्रौता आर्थाश् च ते यस्मिन्न् एक-देश-विवर्ति तत् ॥ १०.९४ab ॥

śrautā ārthāś ca te yasminn eka-deśa-vivarti tat || 10.94ab ||

śrautāḥ—stated (“born from the sounds”); ārthāḥ—understood (not stated) (“born from the meanings”); ca—and; te—those ones (the upamānas) (the antecedent is āropitāḥ in the previous sūtra); yasmin—in which; eka-deśa-vivarti—the rūpaka called eka-deśa-vivarti (“it exists in a special way in one place”); tat—that.

When some upamānas are stated and one upamāna is not stated, that is eka-deśa-vivarti-rūpaka (partial overall metaphor).

āropyamāṇāḥ kecic chabdāḥ[1] kecit tv ārthāś cet tadaika-deśa-vivarti-rūpakam.

If some upamānas are mentioned and some upamāna is implied, that is the rūpaka called eka-deśa-vivarti.

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

This should read: chābdāḥ.

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