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 10.137 [Vyāja-stuti]
26. Vyāja-stuti
व्याज-स्तुतिर् मुखे निन्दा स्तुतिर् वा रूढिर् अन्यथा ॥ १०.११२ab ॥
vyāja-stutir mukhe nindā stutir vā rūḍhir anyathā || 10.112ab ||
vyāja-stutiḥ—the ornament called vyāja-stuti; mukhe—in the mouth; nindā—criticism; stutiḥ—praise; vā—or; rūḍhiḥ—the development (the culmination); anyathā—in the other way.
When faultfinding culminates in an implied praise, or when praise culminates in an implied faultfinding, that is vyāja-stuti (artful praise).
ādau nindā-stutir vā budhyate tayoś ced anyathā rūḍhiḥ paryavasānaṃ syāt tadā vyāja-rūpā vyājena vā stutir vyāja-stutiḥ. vācyābhyāṃ nindā-stutibhyāṃ stuti-ninde cet kramād vyajyete tadety arthaḥ.
If criticism is understood at first and the culmination is praise, then the term vyāja-stuti is analyzed as vyājena stutiḥ (praise under a pretext), but if praise is understood at first and the culmination is criticism, then the derivation is vyāja-rūpā stutiḥ (false praise).