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 10.89 [Prativastūpamā]
13. Prativastūpamā
प्रतिवस्तूपमा तु सा ॥ १०.१०१d ॥
सामान्यस्य द्विर् एकस्य यत्र वाक्य-द्वये स्थितिः ॥ १०.१०२ab ॥
prativastūpamā tu sā || 10.101d ||
sāmānyasya dvir ekasya yatra vākya-dvaye sthitiḥ || 10.102ab ||
prativastu-upamā—the ornament called prativastūpamā; tu—(used to express a new beginning); sā—that; sāmānyasya—[of one] common attribute; dviḥ—there is two; ekasya—of one; yatra vākya-dvaye—in which pair of sentences; sthitiḥ—
When a single attribute is in two sentences, that is prativastūpamā (two sentences have an implied similarity).
ekasya sādharmyasyopamāna-vākye upameya-vākye ca śabda-bhedena ced vṛttis tadā prativastūpamā.
If the same attribute is in both the upamāna sentence and in the upameya sentence by a difference in the wording, that is prativastūpamā.