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 10.106
राधिका नाथ निःसीम-गुण-सौन्दर्य-शालिनी ।
निर्गुणान्य-व्रज-स्त्री-वन् नेयम् एनां प्रसादय ॥
rādhikā nātha niḥsīma-guṇa-saundarya-śālinī |
nirguṇānya-vraja-strī-van neyam enāṃ prasādaya ||
O Kṛṣṇa, Rādhikā abounds in the beauty of unbounded qualities. She is not like other women of Vraja, who have no qualities. Propitiate Her.
atra tulyārthe vatir ity ārthaṃ sāmyam.
Here the contrast is indirect because the suffix vat[i] has the sense of tulya (like).
Commentary:
Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha illustrates an indirect contrast:
aniśaṃ nayanābhirāmayā ramayā sammadino mukhasya te |
niśi niḥsarad-indiraṃ kathaṃ tulayāmaḥ kalayāpi paṅkajam ||“How could we compare a lotus, whose resplendence goes away at night, with even a fraction of your face, which gives pleasure with its splendor ever pleasing to the eye?” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara, KM p. 347).
Here the verb tulayāmaḥ (we compare) expresses the comparison.