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...

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(4b) [The cause and its effect occur simultaneously:]

आश्लिष्यन्ति समं देव ज्यां परांश् च तवेषवः ॥

āśliṣyanti samaṃ deva jyāṃ parāṃś ca taveṣavaḥ ||[1]

āśliṣyanti—they embrace; samam—in a manner of sameness; deva—O Lord; jyām—the bowstring; parān—the enemies; ca—and; tava—Your; iṣavaḥarrows.

O Kṛṣṇa, Your arrows connect with the bowstring and with the enemies at the same time.

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[1]:

āliṅganti samaṃ deva jyāṃ śarāś ca parāṃś ca te | (Candrāloka 5.41)

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