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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उदाहरणम्,
भाग्यैर् भूम्या भवान् प्राप्तो भवता महिता मतिः |
मत्या मुमुक्षु-शरणं चरणं मुर-वैरिणः ||
udāharaṇam,
bhāgyair bhūmyā bhavān prāpto bhavatā mahitā matiḥ |
matyā mumukṣu-śaraṇaṃ caraṇaṃ mura-vairiṇaḥ ||
This is an example. [A poet speaks to Ambarīṣa[1] :]
You were obtained by the Earth because of much good fortune. An honorable determination was obtained by your good self. And Kṛṣṇa’s feet, the shelter of those who seek liberation, are obtained by determination.
Commentary:
According to Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha, mālā-dīpaka should be counted as a variety of the ekāvalī ornament (modified series) (10.215).[2]
This is his example of mālā-dīpaka,
āsvadena raso rasena kavitā kāvyena vāṇī tayā
lokāntaḥkaraṇānurāga-rasikaḥ sabhyaḥ sabhā cāmunā |
dāridryānala-dahyamāna-jagatī-pīyūṣa-dhārādhara
kṣoṇī-nātha tayā bhavāṃś ca bhavatā bhū-maṇḍalaṃ bhāsate ||“O king, O cloud who rains nectar on the world scorched by the fire of poverty! The rasas are resplendent by being relished. Poetry is resplendent with the rasas. Speech is resplendent with poetry. A cultured enjoyer loved by all is resplendent with speech. An assembly is resplendent with a cultured enjoyer. You are resplendent with an assembly. And the Earth is resplendent with you” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 328).