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 10.154 [Paryāyokta]
32. Paryāyokta
पर्यायोक्तं विना वाच्यवाचकत्वेन वस्तु यत् [७८३] ॥ १०.११५ab ॥
paryāyoktaṃ vinā vācyavācakatvena vastu yat[1] || 10.115ab ||
paryāya-uktam—the ornament called paryāyokta (“said with a roundabout (or with a synonym)”); vinā vācya-vācakatvena—without being a literally expressed sense or being a literally expressed word; vastu—an idea (a meaning); yat—if (yat = yadi).
If an idea is understood although neither the words nor the meanings literally express it, that is paryāyokta (circumlocution).
vācya-vācaka-bhāvaṃ vināpi ced vastv abhidhīyate tadā paryāyeṇa bhaṅgyā kathanāt paryāyoktaṃ vyaṅgyasyaivokti-vaicitrya-viśeṣād abhidheya-vat sphuṭā pratītis tad ity arthaḥ.
If an idea is literally expressed even without literal meanings and literally expressive words, that is paryāyokta, so called because there is a mention by a turn of expression. This means there is a clear perception as if it were literally expressed, owing to the distinct strikingness of the implied sense.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
paryāyoktaṃ vinā vācya-vācakatvena yad vacaḥ (Kāvya-prakāśa 10.115ab).