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 10.114 [Vibhāvanā]
20. Vibhāvanā
क्रियायाः प्रतिषेधेऽपि फल-व्यक्तिर् विभावना ॥ १०.१०७cd ॥
kriyāyāḥ pratiṣedhe'pi phala-vyaktir vibhāvanā || 10.107cd ||
kriyāyāḥ—of the action (the normal cause[1]); pratiṣedhe api—although there is a negation (an absence); phala—of a result; vyaktiḥ—the manifestation; vibhāvanā—the ornament called vibhāvanā.
When an effect arises without a normal cause, that is vibhāvanā (a result without a normal cause).
hetu-bhūta-kriyā-virahe’pi kāryotpattir vibhāvanā. atra vināpi hetuṃ kāryodayopanibandho hetv-antara-sāpekṣo bhavituṃ yuktaḥ. tac ca kvacid uktaṃ kvacid anuktam iti dvedhā.
Vibhāvanā is the origination of an effect although there is no action which is the usual cause. The literary construction of the occurrence of an effect without the cause requires some other cause. Sometimes ` it is stated and sometimes not. Thus vibhāvanā has two varieties.