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 10.98 [Mālā-dīpaka]
16. Mālā-dīpaka
माला-दीपकम् आद्यं चेद् यथोत्तर-गुणावहम् ॥ १०.१०४ab ॥
mālā-dīpakam ādyaṃ ced yathottara-guṇāvaham || 10.104ab ||
mālā-dīpakam—the ornament called mālā-dīpaka; ādyam—the first one (each first element[1]); cet—if; yathā-uttara—to each successive one; guṇa—a quality; āvaham—imparts.
If each first element imparts a quality to the next element, that is mālā-dīpaka (serial illuminator).
pūrva-pūrvaṃ ced uttarottaraṃ kuryāt tadā mālā-dīpakam.
If each preceding thing makes each next thing, that is mālā-dīpaka.
Commentary:
Govinda Ṭhakkura says that although the mālā varieties of previous ornaments were not defined, the mālā variety of dīpaka is defined because it conveys a special strikingness.[2]