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 10.122 [Arthāntara-nyāsa]
23. Arthāntara-nyāsa
सामान्यं वा विशेषो वा तद् अन्येन समर्थ्यते ।
यत्र सोऽर्थान्तर-न्यासः साधर्म्येणेतरेण वा ॥ १०.१०९ ॥
sāmānyaṃ vā viśeṣo vā tad anyena samarthyate |
yatra so'rthāntara-nyāsaḥ sādharmyeṇetareṇa vā || 10.109 ||
sāmānyam—a generality; vā—or; viśeṣaḥ—a particular instance; vā—or; tat-anyena—by the one which is other than that; samarthyate—is corroborated; yatra—in which; saḥ—that; artha-antara-nyāsaḥ—the ornament called arthāntara-nyāsa (“the insertion of another thing”); sādharmyeṇa—by a similarity; itareṇa—by the other (a contrast); vā—or.
When a particular instance is corroborated by a generality or when a generality is corroborated by a particular instance, that is arthāntara-nyāsa (corroboration). The corroboration takes place either by a similarity or by a contrast. Thus there are four varieties.
sādharmya-vaidharmyābhyāṃ sāmānyaṃ viśeṣeṇa cet samarthyate viśeṣo vā sāmānyena tadārthāntara-nyāsaś catur-vidhaḥ. (The translation of the elaboration was incorporated above.)