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 10.161 [Samuccaya]
34. Samuccaya
तत्-सिद्धि-हेताव् एकस्मिन् यत्रान्यत् तत्-करं भवेत् । समुच्चयोऽसौ ॥ १०.११६abc ॥
tat-siddhi-hetāv ekasmin yatrānyat tat-karaṃ bhavet | samuccayo'sau || 10.116abc ||
tat-siddhi—which accomplishes that (the effect which is the subject of description[1]); hetau—cause; ekasmin—when there is one; yatra—in which [statement]; anyat—another [thing]; tat-karam—does that; bhavet—is; samuccayaḥ—the ornament called samuccaya; asau—that.
When there is a mention of a cause in addition to the cause which is already accomplishing the effect, that is samuccaya (conjunction).
tasya prakṛta-kāryasyaikasmin sādhake sthite yady anyat sādhakaṃ nirdiśyate tadā samuccayaḥ. sa ca sad-yoge’sad-yoge sad-asad-yoge ceti tridhā.
If, when one cause is already accomplishing the effect which is the subject of description, another cause is mentioned, then there is samuccaya. It has three varieties: (1) sad-yoga (a combination of good things), (2) asad-yoga (a combination of bad things), and (3) sad-asad-yoga (a combination of things that are both good and bad).