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 10.66 [Nidarśanā]
10. Nidarśanā
अभवन् वस्तु-सम्बन्ध उपमा-परिकल्पकः ॥ १०.९७bcd ॥
abhavan vastu-sambandha upamā-parikalpakaḥ || 10.97bcd ||
nidarśanā—the ornament called nidarśanā; abhavat—nonexisting; vastu—between things; sambandhaḥ—a connection; upamā—of a simile; parikalpakaḥ—[a connection,] in which there is the imagination.
When a nonexisting connection between two things culminates as an imagined simile, that is nidarśanā (illustration).
asidhyan vastu-sambandhaś ced upamāṃ parikalpya bhajaty anvayaṃ tadā nidarśanā.
If a nonaccomplished relation between things turns out as a connection by imagining a simile, that is nidarśanā.
Commentary:
The nidarśanā ornament is actually two separate ornaments which bear the same name. The second variety (illustration) is described ahead (10.70).