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 10.144
[This is an example of a thing which is resplendent in the absence of another:]
सांख्य-योगादिकैर् भावैर् विनेयम् अतिशोभना ।
अइकान्तिकी हरेर् भक्तिस् तद्-वशी-करणौषधिः ॥
sāṃkhya-yogādikair bhāvair vineyam atiśobhanā |
aikāntikī harer bhaktis tad-vaśī-karaṇauṣadhiḥ ||
sāṃkhya—of Sāṅkhya philosophy (wherein the Puruṣa is merely the correlative of Prakṛti); yoga—of the eightfold yoga system; ādikaiḥ—and so on (“whose beginning is”) (i.e. karma-yoga); bhāvaiḥ vinā—without the modes of existence; iyam—this; atiśobhanā—very resplendent; aikāntikī—exclusive (one-pointed); hareḥ—to Hari; bhaktiḥ—devotional service; tat-vaśī-karaṇa—which brings Him under control; oṣadhiḥ—the medicine.
Exclusive devotional service to Hari, the remedy that makes Him give an ear, is very resplendent without Sāṅkhya philosophy, without meditation on the impersonal form of the Absolute Truth, and without an engagement in material activities.
Commentary:
Paṇḍita-rāja Jagannātha says that each vinokti in the following verse is based on śleṣopamā (simile founded on paronomasia[1]):
trāsair vinā virājante śūrāḥ san-maṇayo yathā |
na dānena vinā bhānti nṛpā loke dvipā iva ||“As fighters are eminent without trāsa (fear), so are precious stones (trāsa is a fault in a gem[2]). Like elephants, kings are not splendid without dāna (giving)” (Rasa-gaṅgādhara). As regards elephants, dāna means rut fluid on the temples.