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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सदोदित्वर-तेजः-श्री रजनी-विहत-प्रभम् ।
भास्वन्तं जितवान् एष भास्वान् वृन्दावनेश्वरः ॥
sadoditvara-tejaḥ-śrī rajanī-vihata-prabham |
bhāsvantaṃ jitavān eṣa bhāsvān vṛndāvaneśvaraḥ ||
sadā—always; uditvara—rises well; tejaḥ—of effulgence; śrīḥ—[Kṛṣṇa,] whose splendor; rajanī—at night; vihata—is lost; prabham—[the sun,] whose light; bhāsvantam—the sun (“it has light”); jitavān—defeated; eṣaḥ—this one; bhāsvān—He has resplendence; vṛndāvana-īśvaraḥ—the Lord of Vṛndāvana.
This resplendent one (bhāsvān), the Lord of Vṛndāvana, whose effulgence always increases, defeats the sun (bhāsvān), whose light is lost at night. (based on Kāvya-prakāśa verse 469)
atrevādi-śabdābhāvād ākṣiptaṃ sāmyam. bhāsvac-chabdaḥ śliṣṭaḥ. ādya-pādayor hetvor uktiḥ, anuktiṣu bhedās tu prāg-vad bodhyāḥ. tad evaṃ caturviśatir vyatirekāḥ.
Here the contrast is implied because no word of comparison is used. The word bhāsvān is paronomastic. Both reasons are mentioned. The other varieties occur like the previous ones. Thus vyatireka has twenty-four categories.