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 10.105
क्रमेणोदाहरणम्,
krameṇodāharaṇam,
Examples are shown in order.
rūpaṃ rūpaya rādhāyāḥ śṛṇu mādhava sādaram |
akalaṅkaṃ mukhaṃ tasyā na kalaṅkī vidhur yathā ||
[Kṛṣṇa said:] “Describe Rādhā’s form.” [The messenger replied:] “Mādhāva, listen carefully. Her spotless face is not like the spotted moon.”
atra yathā-śabda-prayogāc chābdaṃ sāmyam.
Here the contrast is direct because the word yathā (like) is used.
Commentary:
Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha illustrates a direct contrast:
kaṭu jalpati kaścid alpa-vedī yadi ced īdṛśam atra kiṃ vidadhmaḥ |
katham indur ivānanaṃ tvadīyaṃ sa-kalaṅkaḥ sa kalaṅka-hīnam etat ||“If some ignorant person disagreeably mutters this sort of thing, what can we do? How can your face possibly be like the moon? This one is taintless and that one is blotched” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 347).